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201.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

202.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- Lord, Shirley

203.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

- Lowenstein, John

204.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

- Lu Xun

205.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

- Macdonald, George

206.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

- Magnin, Edgar F.

207.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

- Maharshi, Ramana

208.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

- Malraux, Andre

209.

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.

- Maltz, Maxwell

210.

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.

- Mandino, Og

211.

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.

- Mandino, Og

212.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

213.

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.

- Marden, Orison Swett

214.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

215.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

- Marley, Bob

216.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

217.

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.

- Mckain, Robert J.

218.

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.

- Melville, Herman

219.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

220.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

- Milea, Jinx