Quotes and Sayings about Taking action

Quotes and Sayings about Taking action

Do or do not. There is no try.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

Napoléon Bonaparte

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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Lies Men Talking

He who thinks too much, will not act.

Friedrich Schiller in William Tell

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Thinking Self-Confidence

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Joanne K. Rowling

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Failures & Mistakes Motivation

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Alexander Herzen

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Knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 1 Episode 6

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The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Steven Tyler

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Don't think, just do!

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sheep that sleeps gets carried by the current.

Milio, the Gentle Flame in League of Legends

Harsh words can't solve problems - action will.

Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 Episode 11

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.

Richard Branson

Motivation Falling down

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Ernest Gaines

Saying and doing are two things.

Matthew Henry

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Ani DiFranco

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I didn't study; I live.

Eric Cantona

Experience Learning

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

Theresa May

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in!

Andrew Jackson

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

Learning Knowledge

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

Kevin Gates

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S. Truman

USA Independence Day

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Paulo Coelho

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

William Arthur Ward

Chances & Opportunities Motivation Sunrise

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Thomas Sowell

Showing is better than telling.

Floyd Mayweather

I think that all you are is just the things that you do.

Diane Nguyen in BoJack Horseman

There are people who do things and people who take the credit, and the trick is to be in the first group, there is a lot less competition.

Dwight Morrow

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

Bernard Cornwell in The Last Kingdom

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Hikaru Nakamura

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

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Thinking Talking

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

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Experience Past

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

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Learning Education

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

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Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoléon Bonaparte

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Failures & Mistakes Enemies & Opponents

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Cassandra Clare in The Dark Artifices - Lady Midnight

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