Quotes about action

"You don't have to get it right the first time."

Sher, Barbara on action
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"Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust."

Shirley, James on action   

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

Smiles, Samuel on action
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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Smith, Liz on action
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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney on action
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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

Sophocles on action
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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."

South, Bishop Robert on action   

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

South, Bishop Robert on action   

"No one will do it for you."

Stein, Ben on action
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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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 on action   

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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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 on action
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"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 on action   

"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. on action   

"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 on action   

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action   

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action
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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 on action
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

Thoreau, Henry David on action   

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."

Thoreau, Henry David on action   

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank on action
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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 on action   

"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 on action   

"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 on action   

"It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."

Troward, Thomas on action   

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."

Turner, Ted on action   

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Two-thirds of promotion is motion"

Unknown, Source on action   

"To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?"

Unknown, Source on action   

"What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."

Unknown, Source on action
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"People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up."

Unknown, Source on action   

"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Do it now. Then it's done."

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"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"

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"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

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"Backbone beats wishbone every time."

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"Be both the gardener and the rose."

Unknown, Source on action