Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

The only way to start is to start.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Shakespeare, William

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Proverb, French

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

34.

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

Proverb, Irish

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Sher, Barbara

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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