Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shirley, James

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

11.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Liter, James

19.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

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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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

39.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Cooley, Charles Horton