Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lord, Shirley

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lu Xun

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bible

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American