Action Quotes
Action quotes clearly show the contrast between doing and simply talking; perseverance over quitting and strength of character over weakness. These action quotes speak to the issue of inspiration to move forward and not to stay mired in a problem. They speak of taking positive action when faced with a challenge rather than taking no action at all.The word "action" defines its' intention - that is to move in direct opposition to being stuck. It is the forward movement in all of life that foreshadows accomplishment rather than living in past glories or past success. Sometimes, as you will read, there is a cost or a risk to action; but, inaction never resolves anything.
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Action Quotes Page 2 -related: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
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Maintain an objective stance regarding your reactions and the consequences of the actions of the other person.
Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say
Poems of Encouragement -
The garden a place for all to enjoy....it is a place to see nature in action
Catherine Pulsifer, A Garden Can Be
Garden Poems -
Sow a thought and you reap an action
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sow
Poems About Character -
God does not just want you to read the Bible but to take action by loving and serving others
Catherine Pulsifer
Christian Poems -
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison
Poems About Books -
Looking for ways to be happy, just take action and help others.
Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes About Being Happy -
Justice is the truth in action.
Joseph Joubert
Poems About Justice -
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
The Oak Tree Poem -
Friendship may lead to an action that helps you way beyond what you expected.
Victoria L. Adenson
Friendship Poems -
What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis Prayer -
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
Francis Chan
Quotes About The Bible -
Say well is good, but do well is better
Unknown, Do Well
Good Poems -
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable; those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Funny Quotes About Life -
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Poems For Women -
My grandparents... loved me so - a love in action they did show.
Catherine Pulsifer, In My Heart
Grandparents Poems -
Let us never forget that an act of goodness is What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
New Year Poems -
of itself an act of happiness.
Maurice Materlinck, Act of Happiness
Poems About Happiness -
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness Quotes -
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, With The Wind
Poems About The Wind - Plans don't change lives, actions do.
Matt Morris, How To Live In The Present Moment
Short Quotes -
Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
Be The Best Quotes -
If some despondent soul to hope is stirred, some sad lip made to smile, by any act of ours, or any word, then, life has been worth while.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Does It Pay
Famous Poets -
Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.
David Orr
Hope Quotes -
Thankfulness is measured by the number of words. Gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions.
David O. McKay
Thanksgiving Poems -
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Wisdom Quotes -
A time to stand up and a time to sit, — but see that the time and actions fit.
Alden Arthur Knipe, Time For Everything
Poems For Kids -
Rather than focus on stress take action to resolve.
Catherine Pulsifer, We All Have...But We All Have
Poems About Stress -
For, as the present hour is spent, so must the future be; each action lives, in its effect, through all eternity.
S. W. Irvin, A Little Sonnet About Little Things
Little Things Poems -
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do - set a watch upon your actions
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Wishing
Kindness Poems -
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Nicholas Spark
Quotes For A Friend -
You can spark a community. Don’t sit back and wait for one to appear.
Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh; Kai Elmer Sotto, Get Together
Community Quotes -
"The best way you can predict your future is to create it."
Stephen Covey
Poems About Memories -
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton
Legacy Quotes -
How strong is your passion are you willing to take action?
Catherine Pulsifer, Your Determination
Poems On Determination -
True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.
David A. Bednar
Quotes About Jesus -
Love can only be found through the act of loving.
Paulo Coelho
Finding Love Poems -
It is one thing to read the Bible through, another thing to read to learn and do
Unknown, How Readest Thou?
Poems About The Bible -
A true friend is one who acts - by their actions your life it does impact
Catherine Pulsifer, A True Friend Is One...
True Friendship Poems -
... the more awareness and mindfulness we bring to all our daily actions, including our work, the better our work will be.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Work
Work Quotes -
"I think there is something, more important than believing: Action!
The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move
ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."
W. Clement Stone
Inspirational Poems -
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm Of Life
Poems About Life Struggles -
And taking action is not just for one day we must think about the earth and what we do what impact are you having
Catherine Pulsifer, Every Day
Poems About Earth Day -
Far better seek a goal of certainty, a harbor of sureness, in the doing of kindly deeds, noble actions, unselfish devotion to the uplift of others.
George Wharton James, Quit Your Worrying!
Inspirational Quotes - May you find direction and clarity in how to move forward.
Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You
Positive Poems -
Taking action is how you are going to build the life you want. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work!
Rick Kolster, Roll Up Your Sleeves & Get To Work
Hard Work Quotes -
On most accounts of morals, the springs of your actions speak to the issue of the moral worth of your actions.
Gordon Marino, Ethics
Work Ethics Quotes - "When you are feeling stressed, taking action will result in less stress"
Catherine Pulsifer
Stress Quotes -
Dreaming can is the first step to achieving your desires, taking action
is the second step to success.
Catherine Pulsifer
Success Quotes -
The process of setting a goal on the outer boundaries of what we think is possible, and then systematically pursuing it, is one of the most fulfilling parts about being human.
Brad Stulberg; Steve Magness, Peak Performance
Poems About Goals -
Don't waste your life waiting for others to take action, live your passion, set your goals and move in the direction to attain them.
Mary Bermer
Poems About Life -
Doing means jumping in and choosing something, anything, but taking action and moving from thinking to doing.
Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., Negaholics How to Overcome Negativity and Turn Your Life Around
Don't Quit Poem -
No one has ever achieved extreme success without being enthusiastic about taking action.
Noel N
Success Poem -
"We cannot think first and act afterward.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action,
and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought."
Alfred North Whitehead
Graduation Quotes -
"There are costs and risks to a program of action,
but they are far less than the long-range risks and
costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
Risk Quotes -
Patience is the ability to know when to act.
Catherine Pulsifer
Patience Quotes -
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
W.J. Cameron
Thanksgiving Quotes -
"Just Do It!"
Nike Advertisement
Opportunity Quotes -
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
William Blake
Poetry Quotes -
"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up
and guarded for the doer's need."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Helping Others Quotes -
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man
who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Graduation Poems -
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do."
Andrew Carnegie
Birthday Quotes -
"When things become stressful, think of happy thoughts and smile - that single physical action will give a signal to your body that could trigger positive emotions.
Christopher Michaels, Think Positive
Smile Quotes -
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glascow
Creativity Quotes -
I've learned that children's eyes observe more than their ears ever hear and the example we set for them determines their actions.
Author Unknown
Children Quotes -
"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention."
Larry Eisenberg
Be An Example Quotes -
"Reinforce your coping mechanisms by
viewing change as an opportunity, not as a threat,
finding a positive benefit in your challenges, discussing the
situation with a friend, taking action and not procrastinating,
taking time to laugh, and above all, keeping things in perspective!"
Catherine Pulsifer, Life is The Way It Is!
Procrastination Quotes -
"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."
Francis Jeffery
Mistake Quotes -
"Often just by taking action, by doing something about the situation
can relieve the stress and help correct the situation."
Catherine Pulsifer
Positive Quotes -
"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."
Irish Proverb
Proverbs -
"Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness -
"When you find yourself worrying, ask yourself, 'Can I do anything about it?'
If you can, then take the required action to eliminate the worry.
If you can't do anything about it, or if it is beyond your control,
then don't waste your time worrying! "
Catherine Pulsifer
Worry -
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.
You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
Mary Kay Ash
Challenges -
"You can't do everything at once, but you can do something at once."
Calvin Coolidge
Overwhelmed Quotes -
"The cure for grief is motion."
Elbert Hubbard
Poems About Hope -
"Where am I today in relation to my three goals,
and what actions do I need to take to get me from where I
am today to where I want to be?"
Catherine Pulsifer,
Goals Quotes -
"The most important step in goal setting is TAKING ACTION.
You can decide on your goal and you can write it down, but unless
you take action, the goal is useless."
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About Winning -
"Thought is action in rehearsal."
Sigmund Freud
Imagination Quotes -
"Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing.
Find a good wing and climb up underneath it."
Frank C. Bucaro
Life Poems -
"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
Carl Sandburg
Time -
"It is the nature of thought to find its way into action."
Christian Nevell Bovee
Motivational Poems -
Take small actions every day toward defeating something that scares you and rejection loses its power.
Scott Allan, Rejection Free
Rejection Quotes -
"It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't Quit Poem -
"Most people stop short of taking action;
they spend more time thinking about what they need to do
and analyzing it all. This wastes so much time and energy.
Time and energy that could be put to better use by taking action."
Wendy Hearn
Poem About Life Lessons -
"Good ideas are great, but they will only work if they are put
into action, and we tend only to bother to activate the things
that really motivate us."
Lynda Field, Weekend Life Coach
Innovation Quotes -
"Accept responsibility for your own actions."
Jerry Jenkins, Twelve Things I Want my Kids to Remember
Poems About Change -
"Freedom can start today, right now. You can change your life
in one second. Freedom is a state of mind."
Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Free
Independence Quotes -
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."
Will Rogers
Humorous Quotes -
"'Stop doing' lists are more important that 'to do' lists."
Jim Collins, Good to Great
Truth -
"The secret to making things happen is not about having a positive attitude. It's about taking positive action."
Paul Boynton
Attitude Quotes
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