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  What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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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

  Men, Shadow, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.90

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

  Robert Breault

  Order, Done, Lists

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Air, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

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• Things do not get better by being left alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Get Better, Left Alone, Left

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Thought is action in rehearsal.

  William Zinsser

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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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

  Strong, Ascending, Today

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vaccines, Effort, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Beautiful

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• What we need is to use what we have.

  Susan Sontag

  Use It Or Lose It, Needs, Use

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• Never confuse movement with action.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Funny, Work

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  Ed Koch

  Advice, Primitive, Foresight

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

  Robert Breault

  Done, Seems, Ifs

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  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe In Yourself

  "Shaq asked Denzel Washington to say lines from 'Training Day' speech" by Alysha Tsuji, www.usatoday.com. April 17, 2018.

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• The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Reason, Conviction

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.

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• The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Happiness, Wine

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• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Joy, Soul

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Either move or be moved.

  Ezra Pound

  Moving, Moved

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