action Quotes

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.