Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
- Genius will falter by the side of labor, great powers will yield to great industry.
- Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
- Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.
- Get out there and do what you’re supposed to do whether you feel like it or not.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
- God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
- God can speak whatever he will into existence, but man must work into existence whatever good he desires.
- God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- God helps them that help themselves.
- Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
- Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others.Samuel SmilesSourced
- Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
- Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed.
- Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
- Great things are just ahead of you, but you must reach out for them--they're not going to drop into folded hands.
- Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
- Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
- Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest.
- Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
- Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
- Hard work, a definite aim, and faithfulness, will shorten the way.
- Hard work brings health, and an ounce of health is worth a sack of diamonds.
- Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
- He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
- He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
- He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
- He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.
- He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
- He who considers too much will accomplish little.
- He who does not advance falls backward.
- He who goes alone may start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
- He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow.
- He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
- Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.SophoclesSourced
- Heaven never helps the man that will not act.