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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Václav Havel
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clémenceau
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins
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A well begun is half ended.
Plato
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Immanuel Kant
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
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Act quickly, think slowly.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
Thomas Carlyle
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer
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Action is character.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Tony Robbins
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Robert South
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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Act, don't react!
Action
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Albert Einstein
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. -- Matthew 7:12
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Allow motion to equal emotion.
Elbert Hubbard
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Backbone beats wishbone every time.
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Be both the gardener and the rose.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
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Before you can do something you must first be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
Robert Collier
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Robert H. Schuller
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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. -- James 1:22
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles de Gaulle
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
Napoleon Hill
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Do it now. Then it's done.
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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Jean Paul
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
George MacDonald
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. -- Matthew 7:12
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Barbara Sher
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Lou Holtz
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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Eileen Caddy
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Effective action is always unjust.
Jean Anouilh
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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
Wayne Dyer
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante Alighieri
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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