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Action Quotes by John C. Maxwell
- Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard…
- Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
- Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very…
- Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.
- She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.
- An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.
- As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.
- Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
- If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare…
- You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you…
- People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve…
- If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing…
- You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.
- Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
- Followers are always watching what you do. And people do what people see! If you are a leader seeking to make your vision come alive,…
- The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.
- The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at…
- A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
- A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
- As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become.…
- Dreams don't work unless you do
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle