Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Shirley, James

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Einstein, Albert

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action is character.

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

Liter, James

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.