Action
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- A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
- A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can.John Stuart MillSourced
- A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
- A year from now you may wish you had started today!
- Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine.John MiltonCommonly attributed
- Act as if every day were the last of your life, and each action the last you perform.
- Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.William JamesSourced
- Act like the person you want to be.
- Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
- Action battles doubt.
- Action builds resilience. Inaction stokes fear.
- Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.
- Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.
- Action is a high road to self-confidence and self-esteem.
- Action is character.
- Action is the antidote to despair. Almost any kind of action, especially that which is intelligently planned, is better than spending one's days in a dither.
- Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Action makes more fortune than caution.
- Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Action will destroy your procrastination.Og MandinoCommonly attributed
- Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
- Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
- After conforming with the tenet, "Know Thyself," it would be fitting if the next command were, "Use Thyself," for no knowledge is worthy of the name if it is not potent enough to inspire action.
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.
- All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without actionMahatma GandhiCommonly attributed
- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
- All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring.
- All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.
- All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.
- Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.Mark TwainSourced
- An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
- An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.Ralph Waldo EmersonSourced
- An ounce of example is worth a pound of advice. A pint of effort is worth a gallon of excuses. An inch of cooperation is worth a yard of complaints.
- Any man at times will stumble, and it is then our duty to lift him up and set him on his feet again; but no man can be permanently carried, for if he expects to be carried he shows that he is not worth carrying.