Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Ziglar, Zig

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Taylor, Russell C.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is character.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

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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 human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul