Quotes about action

"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

Eliot, George on action   

"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

Eliot, Sir John on action   

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Real action is in silent moments."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Engels, Friedrich on action
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"No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth."

Ennius, Quintus on action
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"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

Evans, Richard L. on action
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Evenus on action
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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Faulkner, William on action
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"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."

Fichte, Johann G. on action   

"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on action   

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

France, Anatole on action
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"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."

Francis De Sales, St. on action
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl) on action   

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

Galsworthy, John on action   

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"Action expresses priorities."

Garfield, Charles A. on action
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"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."

Garibaldi, Giuseppe on action   

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Gaulle, Charles De on action
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"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends."

Gaulle, Charles De on action   

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."

Gerstner, Lou on action   

"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Gibbon, Edward on action
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement."

Gielgud, John on action   

"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Before you can do something you must first be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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