"You don't have to get it right the first time."

Sher, Barbara on action
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"Action is eloquence."

Shakespeare, William on action
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"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

Shakespeare, William on action   

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly."

Schuller, Robert H. on action   

"He who considers too much will perform little."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on action
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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on action
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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."

Rowan, Carl on action   

"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action
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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Smith, Liz on action
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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney on action
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"No one will do it for you."

Stein, Ben on action
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"Act, don't react!"

Unknown, Source on action
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"Do it now. Then it's done."

Unknown, Source on action   

"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something."

Teekens, Inga on action   

"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 on action
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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"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."

Ching Ning Chu on action
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"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

Clarke, James Freeman on action
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"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you."

Company, Lanes on action
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"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."

Conwell, Russel H. on action   

"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."

Carroll, Lewis on action
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."

Carlyle, Thomas on action
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

Buffett, Warren on action
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"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

Brown, Les on action
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"You can't aim a duck to death."

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

Bible on action
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"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Bergson, Henri L. on action
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Batt, Al on action
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."

Curcio, Joan L. on action
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"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."

D'Alembert on action
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"The secret of getting things done is to act!"

David, Benjamin O. on action
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"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."

Francis De Sales, St. on action
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