Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Croce, Benedetto

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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.

11.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

13.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

25.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Riley, Pat

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Action is character.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Auerbach, Red

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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