Quotes About Action

If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright. So it is true that every step we take is more like a reptile's progress across the sand, leaving a track behind it. And often, alas, the track is the mark of our tears!

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

I felt ashamed at letting a talent like mine go to waste, and, as I had been given some new pistols, I thought I'd try them out on the Arabs.

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Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes...

In the main we deal in this life, he says, chiefly with probabilities, with difficult choices often having to do with lesser evils, with situations where one must weigh the pros and cons and often act without anything approaching certainty, but act one must, for it is better even to make a mistake than to hobble oneself permanently in indecision.