Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Courteline, Georges

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Holmes, Marjorie

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Galsworthy, John

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo