Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, American

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Graffiti

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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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

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

Bible

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

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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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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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, English

40.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.