"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own."

Hansen, Mark Victor on dream
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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 on action
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"You have to make it happen."

Greene, Joe on action   

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

Gracian, Baltasar on action   

"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 on action
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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 on action   

"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."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"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."

James, William on action   

"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."

James, William on action   

"If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait."

James, William on action
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"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."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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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 on action
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Hugo, Victor on action   

"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."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on action
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"Before you can do something you must first be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Roosevelt, Theodore on immigration
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"God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them."

Cuyler, Theodore L. on anxiety   

"Adventure is worthwhile."

Earhart, Amelia on adventure
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"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."

Clarissa on adaptability
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"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."

Vivekananda, Swami on action
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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

Viscott, David on action
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"As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action."

Upanishads, Veda on action   

"Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it."

Unknown, Source on action
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"You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind."

Unknown, Source on action   

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on equality
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"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

Roosevelt, Theodore on duty
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"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

Alger, William R. on advice
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Adams, John on desire
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"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on anxiety
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"The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Don't look back, just keep on walking."

Unknown, Source on action   

"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet."

Unknown, Source on action
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