"The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is."

Brooks, Phillips on advice
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"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

Grant, Heber J. on action   

"When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."

Garibaldi, Giuseppe on action   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Dhammapada on action
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

Dewey, John 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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"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."

Collier, Robert on action   

"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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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

Bushnell, Nolan 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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"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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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

Churchill, Winston on adaptability
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"If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile."

Proverb, Indian on adaptability
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Seneca on adversity
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"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

Saying, Greek on adversity
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Nixon, Richard M. on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

Horace on adversity   

"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."

Heraclitus on adversity   

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on adversity   

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Effective action is always unjust."

Anouilh, Jean on action
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"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

Hale, Sir Matthew on absence   

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Bayly, Thomas Haynes on absence
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