Chinese Proverb
“Talk doesn't cook rice.”
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William Shakespeare
“Action is eloquence.”
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Ernest Hemingway
“Never mistake motion for action.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Skill to do comes of doing.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Action expresses priorities.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
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William James
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Great talent finds happiness in execution.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“There are no gains without pains.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
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Thomas H. Huxley
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
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French Proverb
“The first step binds one to the second.”
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Joan Baez
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
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Jared Silver
“Doing things is not the same as getting things done.”
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Allen Tate
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
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Peter Marshall
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
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William Shakespeare
“Nothing will come of nothing.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Well done is better than well said.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
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Baltasar Gracian
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
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Bodhidharma
“All know the way; few actually walk it.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”
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Walter Anderson
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
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Jewish Proverb
“Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.”
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Mark Twain
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
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Nathaniel Branden
“A goal without an action plan is a daydream.”
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Italian Proverb
“Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
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Author Unknown
“After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.”
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John Locke
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”~
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Harold Nicolson
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.”
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James Baldwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
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William F. Halsey
“All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.”
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Lewis Cass
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
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Mike Todd
“Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.”
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Madame de Stael
“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”
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Vincent van Gogh
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
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James 1:22
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
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Victor Hugo
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
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Theodore Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Frederick Douglass
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
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Annie Dillard
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
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John Locke
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.”
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Edwin Markham
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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Arnold Glasow
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
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Kahlil Gibran
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
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Robert Frost
“The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
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Colleen C. Barrett
“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
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Pearl S. Buck
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
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Romans 2:13
“For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
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John Dewey
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
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Mohammed
“Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.”
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Orison Swett Marden
“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
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Walter Linn
“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.”
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Mary Kay Ash
“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”
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Anne Frank
“How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world?”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
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Nicolas de Chamfort
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
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Michael Hanson
“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.”
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Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
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Laurence J. Peter
“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
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Mark Twain
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
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Martha Graham
“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
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Caroline Myss
“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”
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John Wesley
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
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Harry Truman
“I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.”
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Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
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Thomas Alva Edison
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
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Maria Edgeworth
“There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.”
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Aristotle
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.”
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Ernest Newman
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”
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