Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Gide, Andre

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Bible

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Saunders

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Edison, Thomas A.