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Action QuotesFamous Action quotes by popular authors such as William Shakespeare, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Steven Tyler and others.
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[highlight-text]Seize the hour.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Let us do or die.
James Drummond Burns
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[highlight-text]Be God or let God.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Here am I; send me.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Happiness is action.
David Thomas
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[highlight-text]God alone can finish.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]Act and God will act.
Joan of Arc
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[highlight-text]Go and do thou likewise.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Go and wake up your cook.
Arab Proverb
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[highlight-text]Knock the t off the can't.
George Reeves
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[highlight-text]Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]By his deeds we know a man.
African Proverb
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[highlight-text]What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Delay not to seize the hour!
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]No doing without some ruing.
Sigrid Undset
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[highlight-text]Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri
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[highlight-text]Happiness walks on busy feet.
Kitte Turmell
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[highlight-text]The only way round is through.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Trust in God and do something.
Mary Lyon
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[highlight-text]So much to do; so little done.
Cecil Rhodes
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[highlight-text]Performance releases pressure.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Chance favors those in motion.
Dr. James H. Austin
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[highlight-text]Do for yourself or do without.
Gaylord Perry
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[highlight-text]The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Act - act in the living present!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]You cannot clear fog with a fan.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
Dorothy Miller Richardson
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[highlight-text]I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
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[highlight-text]All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]God helps them that helps themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
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[highlight-text]Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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[highlight-text]Right action is the key to good living.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
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[highlight-text]Do well and right and let the world sink.
George Edward Herbert
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[highlight-text]Step up the stairs or stare at the steps.
Ralph Nichols
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[highlight-text]I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]If you want a thing done go - if not send.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]If you can't help it don't think about it.
Carmel Myers
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[highlight-text]He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb
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[highlight-text]An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
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[highlight-text]Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Steven Tyler
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[highlight-text]He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Life happens at the level of events not words.
Alfred Adler
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[highlight-text]No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
Carrie P. Snow
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[highlight-text]God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.
Andrew Dhuse
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[highlight-text]Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W. S. Gilbert
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[highlight-text]God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.
Homer
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[highlight-text]Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]After all is said and done more is said than done.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]In action be primitive; in foresight a strategist.
Rene Char
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[highlight-text]A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)
Robert McClure
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[highlight-text]Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
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[highlight-text]You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]The best direction is the least possible direction.
Joan Manley
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[highlight-text]Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.
Pindar
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[highlight-text]Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]To avoid criticism do nothing say nothing be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
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[highlight-text]Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
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[highlight-text]The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
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[highlight-text]He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.
Andrew Marvell
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[highlight-text]Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]If one knows exactly what is going to be done why do it?
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.
Charles de Gaulle
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[highlight-text]I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.
Cardinal Newman
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[highlight-text]If you want something done right get someone else to do it.
Marion Giacomini
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[highlight-text]Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
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[highlight-text]Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
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[highlight-text]The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
Swahili Proverb
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[highlight-text]Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[highlight-text]For peace of mind resign as general manager of the universe.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
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[highlight-text]There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.
Jessica Lange
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[highlight-text]Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.
Anna Delaney Peale
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[highlight-text]Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
William M. Winans
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[highlight-text]He will hew the line of right let the chips fall where they may.
Roscoe Conkling
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[highlight-text]God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme
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[highlight-text]With us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.
Bible
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[highlight-text]It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Bible
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[highlight-text]We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]You yourself must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.
Buddhist Proverb
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[highlight-text]I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
Donald G. Mitchell
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[highlight-text]If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry
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[highlight-text]People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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[highlight-text]The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.
Emmanuel
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[highlight-text]Action is the only reality; not only reality but morality as well.
Abbie Hoffman
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[highlight-text]Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
Phyllis Bottome
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[highlight-text]Through the picture I see reality. Through the word I understand it.
Sven Lidman
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[highlight-text]When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
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[highlight-text]For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]If faith without works is dead willingness without action is fantasy.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.
Sir Walter Scott
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[highlight-text]You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
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[highlight-text]Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Merrit Malloy
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[highlight-text]Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
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[highlight-text]Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided act promptly.
Sallust
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[highlight-text]Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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[highlight-text]In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.
Robert Herrick
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[highlight-text]He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb
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[highlight-text]Even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
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[highlight-text]Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
Jeannette Rankin
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[highlight-text]But I trusted in thee O Lord; I said Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.
Bible
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[highlight-text]He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
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[highlight-text]Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
William Ellery Channing
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[highlight-text]Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
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[highlight-text]It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Somehow when we no longer feel in control we become available to deeper aliveness.
Richard Moss
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[highlight-text]Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
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[highlight-text]The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.
Jim Rohn
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[highlight-text]Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
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[highlight-text]Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
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[highlight-text]It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald G. May
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[highlight-text]Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
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[highlight-text]Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
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[highlight-text]I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]We are the wire God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
Carlo Carretto
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[highlight-text]Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.
Mother Maribel
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[highlight-text]It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
Agatha Christie
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[highlight-text]When action grows unprofitable gather information; when information grows unprofitable sleep.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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[highlight-text]Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
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[highlight-text]Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.
Henry Suso
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[highlight-text]And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Steven Tyler
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[highlight-text]No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
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[highlight-text]I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it they remain barren.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
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[highlight-text]The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
William J. Johnston
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[highlight-text]Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
Mary Parker Follett
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[highlight-text]The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
Lily Walters
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[highlight-text]'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate; Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Ideas are powerful things requiring not a studious contemplation but an action even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Dector
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[highlight-text]Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
Julia Dorr
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[highlight-text]In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
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[highlight-text]I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall; Some are coming some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
Adelaide A. Proctor
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[highlight-text]Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
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[highlight-text]Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
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[highlight-text]There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
Emily Carr
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[highlight-text]There are two kinds of people: those who say to God 'Thy will be done ' and those to whom God says 'All right then have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.
Reverend Vaughan Quinn
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[highlight-text]Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
Alice Caldwell Rice
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[highlight-text]As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.
Nathaniel Cotton
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[highlight-text]Much that I sought I could not find; much that I found I could not bind; much that I bound I could not free; much that I freed returned to me.
Lee Wilson Dodd
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[highlight-text]Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.
Bible
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[highlight-text]On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
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[highlight-text]Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]During a very busy life I have often been asked 'How did you manage to it all?' The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
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[highlight-text]There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight and that time has come!
General Peter Muhlenberg
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[highlight-text]The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.
Mary McDermott Shideler
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[highlight-text]If you can react the same way to winning and losing that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
Chris Evert
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[highlight-text]If people are suffering then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
The Dalai Lama
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[highlight-text]An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
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[highlight-text]Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
William Graham Sumner
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[highlight-text]The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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[highlight-text]A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
John Fortunato
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[highlight-text]To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
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[highlight-text]The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.
Ashley Montagu
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[highlight-text]Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
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[highlight-text]We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand
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[highlight-text]I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field
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[highlight-text]You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
David Herbert Lawrence
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[highlight-text]It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) 'I trust you; do what you must' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Olga Ilyin
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[highlight-text]Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
Curtis Grant
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[highlight-text]Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of science or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.
Louis Pasteur
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[highlight-text]Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
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[highlight-text]Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
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[highlight-text]To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride but when we attempt to steer the course the momentum dies.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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[highlight-text]My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
Thomas Merton
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[highlight-text]Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel
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[highlight-text]Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what 'it' wanted me to do.
Shakti Gawain
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[highlight-text]I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word 'human' disappears from the race.
Jill Tweedie