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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

  Lew Wallace

  Love Is, Tests, Willing

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.23, XinXii

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• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Choices, Attention

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  Dale Carnegie

  Confidence, Fear, Weight Loss

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.13, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

  John Galsworthy

  Motivational, Men, Done

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• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Giving

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• Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013

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• When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Average, Years

  "Deficits Make You Poorer". www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Unhappy, States

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• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Past, Wish

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

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• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Life, Motivational, Writing

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.50, Bantam

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivation, Work, Half

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• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

  David Viscott

  Believe, People, Criminal Mind

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• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Truth, Taken

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Mind, Capacity

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• Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

  William James

  Life, Success, Everyday

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Political

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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