Motivational Quotes

Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Aristotle

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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Act, don't react!

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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