Motivational Quotes

Action

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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

11.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Company, Lanes

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

29.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

32.

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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

35.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

36.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

37.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

47.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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.