Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.