Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
- Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
- Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
- Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
- Every great work is the result of vast preparatory training.
- Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell LowellSourced
- Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
- Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
- Every petition to God is a precept to man.
- Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity.
- Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
- Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us.
- Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
- Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
- Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Aldous HuxleyCommonly attributed
- Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
- Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
- Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.G. K. ChestertonSourced
- Fear magnifies the task; action shrinks it.
- Feeling does not become stronger in the religious life by waiting, but by using it.
- Few things are impracticable in themselves: and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.
- Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
- Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.
- First make the decision. The ‘how’ will come along the way.
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
- For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- For the whole glory of virtue is in activity.
- For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work.
- For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
- Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
- Forgiveness is not a feeling,it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before Gode.
- Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
- Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- Genius is but a capability of labouring intensely: it is the power of making great and sustained efforts.