Action Quotes

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Perfect

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• It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Littles, Creation, Enough

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• I don't act; I react.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Speculation, Idle

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• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

  Michael J. Fox

  Challenges, Our Actions

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014

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• We must scrunch or be scrunched.

  Charles Dickens

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.304

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• What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Men, Wish

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• Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Causes, Planning

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Peace

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thoughtful, Angry At Someone, Feelings

  "10 instant tips to be happier now" by Gretchen Rubin, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2009.

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• Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Done, Way

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Inspirational Life

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• Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perseverance, Work, Bad Day

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  Abigail Adams

  Communication, Language Words, Diversity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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• Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspire, Vision, Purpose

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• Nothing happens until I make it happen.

  Scott Wilson

  Happens, Make It Happen, Things Happen

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