Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Sandburg, Carl

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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 only way to start is to start.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Proverb, French

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese