Motivational Quotes

Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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 not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

Aristotle

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

23.

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

29.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

31.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Levi, Peter

34.

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

Milne, A. A.

35.

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

Saunders

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.