Action Quotes

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.