Action Quotes - Page 2

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

If your actions are combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.

To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride but when we attempt to steer the course the momentum dies.

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

So much to do so little done.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Live vertically, not horizontally.

A dog barks, but a lion strikes.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

Commitment is an act, not a word

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me.""You don't know that.""Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

Every thought precedes an action.

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.

Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli

Interrupt your thoughts of "I should", with your action of doing.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

Her eyes narrowing, she turned her attention back to where Stephanie stood with Ben, feeling her own pain turn to intense fury. “Dominic knew her so damn well because he was usually thinking the same thing. She was his female version – two halves fitting perfectly together,” Gena spat out, anger inflected in her voice. “Like him, she’s reckless and like him, once she gets something into her head nothing or no one will change her mind.” Her fury revealed itself in her eyes, as she spat out, “And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” - Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.

Karate is many things, but mainly it's about synergy, ebb and flow, trial and error, action and reaction, rhythm of life, progress . . .

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Prayers without action is activity in futility.

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.

Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.

Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more you think of the goal you have in view, the more life and power you will call into action in working for that goal. The more you think of your ambition, the more power you will give to those faculties that can make your ambitions come true. The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

You will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your wisdom or personal development level.

Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.

You could be performing below your potential in areas where you are relying on your own experiences alone and without the guidance of a trusted mentor.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

You aren't battling your ability to stick to a diet, execute a business plan, repair a broken marriage and rebuild your life, hit your goals, or win over a bad manager- you are battling your feelings about doing it. You are more than capable of doing the work to change anything for the better, despite how you feel. Feelings are merely suggestions, ones you can ignore. To change you must do the same, you must ignore how you feel, and just do it anyway.

Every flower blooms at its own pace.

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

Consistency in action is an essential component of success.

Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?

True faith always leads to action.

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

There is no 'secret' to success.There is a BEHAVIOR to success.Decide what you want and act accordingly.Dream. Plan. Execute.

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield

Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.

She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.