Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Lu Xun

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

12.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Saunders

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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 the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Greene, Robert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Company, Lanes

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Courteline, Georges

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

37.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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