"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on action   

"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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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Action expresses priorities."

Garfield, Charles A. on action
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"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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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Gaulle, Charles De on action
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"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Gibbon, Edward on action
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't."

Chambers, Oswald on ability
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