Motivational Quotes

Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

- Marley, Bob

Best Quotes about Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Aristotle

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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

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Holtz, Lou

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Eliot, George

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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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