Quotes about action

"It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state."

Ching Ning Chu on action
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

Cicero, Marcus T. on action   

"Action makes more fortune than caution."

Clapiers, Luc De on action   

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

Clarke, James Freeman on action
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"A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe."

Clemenceau, Georges on action   

"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Clemenceau, Georges on action   

"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more."

Collier, Robert on action   

"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."

Collier, Robert on action   

"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you."

Company, Lanes on action
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."

Conwell, Russel H. on action   

"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

Cooley, Charles Horton on action   

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

Croce, Benedetto on action   

"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."

Curcio, Joan L. on action
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"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."

D'Alembert on action
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

Dante Alighieri on action   

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

Dante Alighieri on action   

"The secret of getting things done is to act!"

David, Benjamin O. on action
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

Dewey, John on action
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."

Dewey, John on action
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Dhammapada on action
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"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

Dimaggio, Joe on action
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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

Disney, Walt on action
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Drucker, Peter F. on action
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"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

Durant, William J. on action
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"Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating."

Dyer, Wayne on action
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

Dyer, Wayne on action
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life."

Edwards, Edward on action   

"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."

Einstein, Albert on action
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"Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio."

Eliot, George on action   

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

Eliot, George on action
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