Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, American

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

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

Crow, Trammell

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shakespeare, William

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Riley, Pat

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.