Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

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

Buffett, Warren

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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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 good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

24.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

25.

Act, don't react!

26.

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

Arendt, Hannah

27.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Aristotle

33.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

34.

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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The only way to start is to start.

39.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

40.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

41.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

42.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

46.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa