"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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"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."

Letterman, Elmer G. on Action
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

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

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"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree."

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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

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"It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy."

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"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

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"He who limps is still walking."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on Action
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"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."

Holtz, Lou on Action
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"Don't think, just do."

Horton, Reiko on Action
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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."

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"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on Action
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"Allow motion to equal emotion."

Hubbard, Elbert on Action
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"The great end of life is not knowledge but 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."

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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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"The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it."

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"Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."

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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

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"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot."

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"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."

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"What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."

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"Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late."

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

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

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"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

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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."

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

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"When deeds speak, words are nothing."

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"Act quickly, think slowly."

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"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

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"No one will do it for you."

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