Action Quotes - Page 21

• Action is character.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “The Last Tycoon”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

  Leonard Sweet

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Purpose, Meaningless

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reality, Men, Silence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.129

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• The worst thing I can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Worst, Can Do, I Can

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, World, Laziness

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Causes, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Storm, Principles, Calm

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37

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• Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Giving, Events

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• Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

  Sallust

  Advice, Wells, Advise

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• Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

  Phillips Brooks

  Eye, Law, World

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• All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

  Novalis

  Transition, Stuff, Permanent

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• No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Two, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.176

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• When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

  James Shirley

  Dwelling, Soul, Glory

  James Shirley (1833). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, Now First Collected: The grateful servant. The traitor. Love's cruelty. Love in a maze. The bird in a cage. Hyde Park”, p.174

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• Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• To be active is the primary vocation of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Vocation, Active

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

  John Tillotson

  Long, Return, Truth Is

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