Action Quotes

Through the picture I see reality. Through the word I understand it.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.

In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of science or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

We will either find a way or make one.

If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.

Ideas are powerful things requiring not a studious contemplation but an action even if it is only an inner action.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

Life happens at the level of events not words.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

Right action is the key to good living.

If faith without works is dead willingness without action is fantasy.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.

Trust in God and do something.

The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

He will hew the line of right let the chips fall where they may.

You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.

On God for all events depend You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best Leave to your Maker all the rest.

You yourself must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest do not worry.

'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.

Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.