"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

Evans, Richard L. on action
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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"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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"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Real action is in silent moments."

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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 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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"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."

Carlyle, Thomas on action
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"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you."

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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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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Drucker, Peter F. on action
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

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"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

Holmes, Marjorie on action
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

Riley, Pat on action
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"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."

Rohn, Jim on action
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"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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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."

Rosen, Richard D. on action   

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on action
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."

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"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on action
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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline on action
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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."

Ray, Marie Beyon on action
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"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

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"You can't start at the top."

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"What really matters is what you do with what you have."

Lord, Shirley on action
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"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act."

Maltz, Maxwell on action
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"Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

Mandino, Og on action
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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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"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Perot, H. Ross on action
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Picasso, Pablo on action
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on acceptance
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