Action Quotes

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun
Ideas without action are worthless. — Harvey Mackay
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Elbert Hubbard
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is… — Sienna Miller
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. — Holly Lisle
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. — Peter McWilliams
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions. — John C. Maxwell
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right… — Aristotle
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill… — Charles Spurgeon
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense… — Dorothy Day
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. — Vladimir Lenin
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. — Robert Foster Bennett
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Action makes more fortune than caution. — Luc de Clapiers
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands… — Albert Schweitzer

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