Quotes about action

"Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap."

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"Act, don't react!"

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"Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed."

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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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"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."

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"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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"It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting."

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"I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so."

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"If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up."

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"No rules for success will work if you don't."

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"Logic will not change an emotion, but action will."

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"Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet."

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"Action is character."

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"It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind."

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"If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward."

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"The best way to get something done is to begin."

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"The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started."

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"The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer"

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"The only way to start is to start."

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"The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden."

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"You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind."

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"Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall."

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"Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it."

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"As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action."

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"When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space"

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"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."

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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

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"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."

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"What we need is to use what we have."

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"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."

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"It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up."

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"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."

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"Actions lie louder than words."

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"In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward."

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"It is better to rust out than wear out."

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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