Action Quotes And Sayings

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
– Confucius

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
– Confucius

“One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness:  not to be a mere rushing on.” 
– D.H. Lawrence

“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.”
– Dalai Lama

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”
– Dale Evans

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
– Edmund Burke

“Never mistake motion for action.” 
– Ernest Hemingway

“Never confuse movement with action.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.  Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures.  They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.” 
– Ernest Newman

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”
– Fidel Castro

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action.” 
– Frank Tibolt

“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
– Franz Kafka

“The first step binds one to the second.” 
– French Proverb

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.” 
– G.K. Chesterton

“If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through.  How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?” 
– George Clason

“When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.”
– George W. Bush

“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
– Gertrude Stein

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
– Gore Vidal

“When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable.” 
– Greg Anderson

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.” 
– Grey Livingston

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
– Hannah Arendt

“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.” 
– Harold Nicolson

“Don’t find fault.  Find a remedy.” 
– Henry Ford

“If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” 
– Henry J. Kaiser

“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.”
– Herbert Hoover

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
– Immanuel Kant

“Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
– Indira Gandhi

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