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Action Quotes


"If you've got an idea, act on it up to its perfection."


"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"


"Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty."


"Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!"


"Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you."


"What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency."


"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."


"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."


"She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future."


"Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!"


"Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it."


"No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder."


"After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is."


"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."


"Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!"


"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."


"He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other."


"Actions are the flowers of thoughts."


"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."


"It is our business to go as we are impelled."



"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."


"The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!"


"It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!"



"He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance."


"Talk is cheap, action is expensive."


"Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success."
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