Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Macdonald, George

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

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

Courteline, Georges

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Holtz, Lou

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

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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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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