Quotes about Action

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

Basil King once said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.