Action Quotes

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

Decisions are the doorway to change.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

If there is no action, you haven't really decided.

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.

First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

But what is your duty? What the day demands.[Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

Ideas without action are useless.

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

Happiness is the result of what you do.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.