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Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

The only way to start is to start.

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.

Graham, Martha

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Macdonald, George

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is character.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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.

Keller, Helen

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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.

Collier, Robert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

Aristotle

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von