Motivational Quotes

Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

24.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

29.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Croce, Benedetto