Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Bible

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

Milea, Jinx

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Crow, Trammell

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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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.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Marley, Bob

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert