Action
Action makes more fortune than caution.
- Clapiers, Luc De
- Clapiers, Luc De
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Clarke, James Freeman
- Clarke, James Freeman
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
- Clemenceau, Georges
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
- Clemenceau, Georges
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
- Collier, Robert
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
- Collier, Robert
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
- Collingwood, Robin G.
- Collingwood, Robin G.
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
- Company, Lanes
- Company, Lanes
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
- Confucius
- Confucius
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.
- Conwell, Russel H.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
- Cooley, Charles Horton
- Cooley, Charles Horton
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
- Courteline, Georges
- Courteline, Georges
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
- Cousins, Norman
- Cousins, Norman
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
- Croce, Benedetto
- Croce, Benedetto
There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
- Crow, Trammell
- Crow, Trammell
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
- Curcio, Joan L.
- Curcio, Joan L.
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
- D'Alembert
The secret of getting things done is to act!
- David, Benjamin O.
- David, Benjamin O.
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
- Dhammapada
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
- Dimaggio, Joe


















