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Adams, Charles Francis
1807-1886 American Statesman Diplomat
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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Aikman, Leo
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
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Alito, Noelie
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
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Allen, Louis A.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
A bird doesn t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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Angelou, Maya
1928 African-American poet Writer Performer
Effective action is always unjust.
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Anouilh, Jean
1910-1987 French Playwright
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
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Anster, John
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas
1225-1274 Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one s own efforts.
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Arendt, Hannah
1906-1975 German-born American Political Philosopher
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Arendt, Hannah
1906-1975 German-born American Political Philosopher
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Well begun is half done.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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Auerbach, Red
1917 American Basketball Coach
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
310-10395 Latin Poet Man of Letters
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Balzac, Honore De
1799-1850 French Novelist
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Batt, Al
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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Berger, Sally
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Bergson, Henri L.
1859-1941 French Philosopher
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
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Besant, Annie
1847-1933 British Theosophist
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
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Bhagavad Gita
c BC 400 Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
You can t aim a duck to death.
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Boardman, Gael
American Politician
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
1906-1945 German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Bronte, Charlotte
1816-1855 British Novelist
Let your performance do the thinking.
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Brown Jr., H. Jackson
American Author of Life's Little Instruction Book Series
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
Take action in order to move toward your goals.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
It s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
Someone s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Buffett, Warren
1930 American Investment Entrepreneur
Let us do or die.
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Burns, Robert
1759-1796 Scottish Poet
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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Bushnell, Nolan
American Businessman Founder of Atari Computer
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
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Byrhhe, Anne
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
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Caddy, Eileen
American Spiritual Writer
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer s need.
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Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
1600-1681 Spanish Playwright
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Calvin, John
1509-1564 French Protestant Reformer
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Cameron, Julie
American Author of The Artist's Way
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
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Canfield, Jack
American Motivational Speaker Author Trainer
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
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Carnegie, Andrew
1835-1919 American Industrialist Philanthropist
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
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Carrel, Alexis
1873-1944 French Biologist
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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Carroll, Lewis
1832-1898 British Writer Mathematician
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
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Cass, Lewis
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
1814-1880 American Author Clergyman
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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Char, Rene
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
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Ching Ning Chu
Chinese-American Businesswoman Lecturer Author
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Action makes more fortune than caution.
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Clapiers, Luc De
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Clarke, James Freeman
1810-1888 American Minister Theologian
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he s not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
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Clemenceau, Georges
1841-1929 French Statesman
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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Clemenceau, Georges
1841-1929 French Statesman
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
If you don t make things happen then things will happen to you.
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Company, Lanes
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
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Conwell, Russel H.
1843-1925 American Lawyer Baptist Minister Lecturer
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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Cooley, Charles Horton
1864-1929 American Sociologist
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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Croce, Benedetto
1866-1952 Italian Philosopher Historian Critic
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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Curcio, Joan L.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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D'Alembert
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321 Italian Philosopher Poet
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321 Italian Philosopher Poet
The secret of getting things done is to act!
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David, Benjamin O.
General US Army
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Dewey, John
1859-1952 American Philosopher Educator
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Dewey, John
1859-1952 American Philosopher Educator
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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Dhammapada
BC 300 Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don t do it, and it won t happen.
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Dimaggio, Joe
1914 American baseball player
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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Disney, Walt
1901-1966 American Artist Film Producer
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Dostoevski, Fyodor
1821-1881 Russian Novelist
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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Drucker, Peter F.
1909 American Management Consultant Author
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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Durant, William J.
1885-1981 American Historian Essayist
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
What you are will show in what you do.
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Edison, Thomas A.
1847-1931 American Inventor Entrepreneur Founder of GE
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
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Edwards, Edward
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man s actions.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Tis God gives skill, but not without men s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius s violins without Antonio.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
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Eliot, Sir John
1592-1632 British Statesman
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Men s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The ancestor of every action is thought.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Real action is in silent moments.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A man s action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Engels, Friedrich
1820-1895 German Social Philosopher
No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.
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Ennius, Quintus
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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Evans, Richard L.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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Evenus
Ancient Greek Poet
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Faulkner, William
1897-1962 American Novelist
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Fichte, Johann G.
1762-1814 German Philosopher
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Fosdick, Harry Emerson
1878-1969 American Minister
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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France, Anatole
1844-1924 French Writer
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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Francis De Sales, St.
1567-1622 Roman Catholic Bishop Writer
Words may show a man s wit but actions his meaning.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)
1874-1939 American-Born French Painter
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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Galsworthy, John
1867-1933 British Novelist Playwright
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Action expresses priorities.
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Garfield, Charles A.
American Peak Performance Expert Researcher Trainer
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Garibaldi, Giuseppe
1807-1882 Italian Patriot Soldier
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Gaulle, Charles De
1890-1970 French President during World War II
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
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Gaulle, Charles De
1890-1970 French President during World War II
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Gerstner, Lou
American Business Excessive Chairman of IBM
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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Gibbon, Edward
1737-1794 British Historian
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Gide, Andre
1869-1951 French Author
One mustn t allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.
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Gielgud, John
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Before you can do something you must first be something.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one s self.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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Gorski, Nick
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Gracian, Baltasar
1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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Graffiti
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
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Graham, Martha
1894-1991 American Dancer Teacher and Choreographer
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
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Gramsci, Antonio
1891-1937 Italian Political Theorist
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Grant, Heber J.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
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Green, Dennis
American Football Coach
You have to make it happen.
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Greene, Joe
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
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Greene, Robert
1558-1592 British Author
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
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Hammarskjold, Dag
1905-1961 Swedish Statesman Secretary-general of UN
Don t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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Hansen, Mark Victor
American Motivational Speaker Author
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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Havel, Vaclav
1936 Czech Playwright President
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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Heine, Heinrich
1797-1856 German Poet Journalist
Never confuse motion with action.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one s balance and keep afloat.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
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Holcomb, John H.
You don t always win your battles, but it s good to know you fought.
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Holmes, Marjorie
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Don t be a spectator, don t let life pass you by.
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Holtz, Lou
1937 American Football Coach
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Holtz, Lou
1937 American Football Coach
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Don t think, just do.
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Horton, Reiko
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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Howells, William Dean
1837-1920 American Novelist Critic
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Allow motion to equal emotion.
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Hubbard, Elbert
1859-1915 American Author Publisher
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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Hutcheson, Francis
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don t just stand there, make something happen.
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Iacocca, Lee
1924 American Businessman Former CEO of Chrysler
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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Iacocca, Lee
1924 American Businessman Former CEO of Chrysler
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don t just stand there, make it happen.
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Iacocca, Lee
1924 American Businessman Former CEO of Chrysler
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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Iacocca, Lee
1924 American Businessman Former CEO of Chrysler
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Inge, Dean William R.
1860-1954 Dean of St Paul's London
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
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Jacobs, Joseph
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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Jerome, St.
c342-420 Croatian Christian Ascetic Scholar
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
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Kant, Immanuel
1724-1804 German Philosopher
My father didn t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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Kelland, Clarence Buddinton
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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Keller, Helen
1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author Lecturer Amorist
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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Kelly, Walt
1913-1973 American Animator Strip Cartoonist
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Kettering, Charles F.
1876-1958 American Engineer Inventor
It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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Khan, Pir Vilayat
1916 Western Philosopher Teacher Master Author
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
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Landon, Michael
1936-1991 American Actor Director
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar
1741-1801 Swiss Theologian Mystic
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar
1741-1801 Swiss Theologian Mystic
He who limps is still walking.
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Lec, Stanislaw J.
1909 Polish Writer
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Letterman, David
1947 American TV Personality
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
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Letterman, Elmer G.
You can t start at the top.
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Levenson, Samuel
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
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Levi, Peter
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Levin, James
American educator
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Lewis, Harvey Spencer
American Author of Mansions of the Soul
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
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Linall Jr. A. L.
1947 American Editor
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
One thought driven home is better than three left on base.
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Liter, James
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
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Long, Haniel
1888-1956 American Author Poet Journalist
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night s repose.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Lord, Shirley
American Writer
If you act like you know what you re doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.
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Lowenstein, John
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Lu Xun
1881-1936 Chinese Writer and Revolutionist
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
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Macdonald, George
1824-1905 Scottish Novelist
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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Magnin, Edgar F.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Maharshi, Ramana
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Malraux, Andre
1901-1976 French Statesman Novelist
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one s ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
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Maltz, Maxwell
American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
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Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
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Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
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Marshall, Peter
1902-1949 American Presbyterian Clergyman
The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.
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Mckain, Robert J.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
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