Motivational Quotes
Action
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Best Quotes about Action
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Franklin, Benjamin
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Robbins, Anthony
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
Proverb, Chinese
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Woolf, Virginia
How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
Marley, Bob
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Greene, Robert
Action expresses priorities.
Garfield, Charles A.
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
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
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
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Teekens, Inga
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Saying, Zen
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Bergson, Henri L.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Rowan, Carl
Talk doesn't cook rice.
Proverb, Chinese
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Schuller, Robert H.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Proverb, French
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The secret of getting things done is to act!
David, Benjamin O.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
Carnegie, Andrew
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Allen, Loius A.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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
The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
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
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Whittier, John Greenleaf
This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Nagarjuna, Siddha
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Gerstner, Lou
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
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Schuller, Robert H.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Wattles, Wallace D.
The ancestor of every action is thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Troward, Thomas
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Sher, Barbara
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
Maltz, Maxwell
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
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Lord, Shirley
Be both the gardener and the rose.
We will not know unless we begin.
Zinn, Howard
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Picasso, Pablo
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