Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only way to start is to start.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Mann, Horace

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Pancoast, Mal

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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