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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Courteline, Georges

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

10.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

11.

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, Mexican

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

18.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

24.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Liter, James

28.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

30.

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.

31.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Proverb, American

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

48.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Franklin, Benjamin