Taking Action Quotes

• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

  Jack Canfield

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 23, 2010

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Clever

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Your future depends on what you do today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Carpe Diem, Today, Future Self

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• Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Christian, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Doubt, Action, Theory

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Making Choices

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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