Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't start at the top.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Shakespeare, William

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert