Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Courteline, Georges

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Pancoast, Mal

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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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.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, German

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph