Action Quotes - Part9

Quotes		Source
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.		Joan Rivers
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.		Anatole France
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.		Saint Augustine
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.		Cesare Pavese
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.		Charles Gaulle
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.		Charles Gaulle
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.		Charles Gaulle
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.		Andre Gide
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.		John Gielgud
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.		Wolfgang Goethe