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Action Quotes


"You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it."


"The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his shirt. The same motion of the hand which brought the razor forward over his shoulder flipped the blade open and freed it from the cord, the blade opening on until the back edge of it lay across the knuckles of his fist, his thumb pressing the handle into his closing fingers, so that in the second before the half-drawn pistol exploded he actually struck at the white man's throat not with the blade but with a sweeping blow of his fist, following through in the same motion so that not even the first jet of blood touched his hand or arm."


"Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure."


"Do something,get something. Do nothing,get nothing. Doing is the beginning of being. Being is the beginning of achieving. Achieving is the essence of living and living is the spices of life."


"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."


"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."


"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."


"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."


"SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain."


"Stop making excuses and start making history."



"I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?"


"Lack of action is the reason why an unwanted situation persists."


"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."


"Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception."


"Stop blaming and start being!"


"I've wasted a lot of time in my life waiting for good things to happen, rather than acting to make them happen.What I've learned?Waiting suffocates power. Acting ignites it.Waiting feeds anxiety. Acting relaxes it. Waiting fuels boredom. Acting repels it. Waiting galvanizes fear. Acting subdues it. Your life will not change any sooner while you wait around for something new. But it just may transform at warp speed once you take action to change it. I'm tired of wasting time, of waiting time. How about you?Act, don't wait."


"Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move."


"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."


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


"To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do."


"The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile."
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