Action(s) Quotes

Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.

Lee J. Colan, Orchestrating Atti

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.

Eileen Caddy

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

St. Francis De Sales

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Lee Iacocca

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Percy Ross

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

William James

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

William James

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William James

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

William James

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Ralph Waldo Emerson