Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Action is character.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, English

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Einstein, Albert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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.

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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.