Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Viscott, David

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is character.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf