Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Grant, Heber J.

Best Quotes about Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Grant, Heber J.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Irish

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo