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132 Quotes on Action
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
Don't count the days. Make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
80 percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Andrew Carnegie
Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.
Paulo Coelho
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Paulo Coelho
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential — these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
Peter Drucker
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last.
Wayne W. Dyer
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Alva Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
Thomas Alva Edison
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first draft of anything is garbage.
Ernest Hemingway
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Steve Jobs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
Immanuel Kant
Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.
Lao Tzu
Be like water making its way through cracks.
Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Bruce Lee
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
Nelson Mandela
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment — is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Anthony Robbins
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Anthony Robbins
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Anthony Robbins
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
John Davison Rockefeller
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John Davison Rockefeller
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John Davison Rockefeller
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John Davison Rockefeller
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John Davison Rockefeller
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success as the quality of perseverance.
John Davison Rockefeller
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
Jim Rohn
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
George Washington
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Zig Ziglar
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar