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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 itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Long, Giving

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Our Actions, Immortality, Glorious

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.

  Bias of Priene

  Considering, Resolute

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• Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Corruption, Stagnation, Idleness

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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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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• What we need is to use what we have.

  Susan Sontag

  Use It Or Lose It, Needs, Use

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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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• 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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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• A well begun is half ended.

  A. C. Benson

  Plato, Half, Wells

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• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Son, Literature, Deeds

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