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Quotes about Action

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
- Samuel Johnson
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
- Anonymous
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.
- Thomas a Kempis
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
- Cicero
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
- CS Lewis
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
- Anne Frank
I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Herbert Hoover
He who hesitates is last.
- Mae West
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
- William James