Taking Action Quotes - Page 5

• In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

  Diahann Carroll

  Powerful, War, Cancer

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• If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

  James T. Farrell

  Writing, Conditions, Ifs

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• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Notable, Moments

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.180, CUP Archive

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

  Dave Reichert

  People, House, Energy

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• No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

  Yiyun Li

  Stronger, Action

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Fall, Men, Might

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• The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowing, People, Action

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• Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

  Ben Nicholas

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

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• Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and lack of faith - you are taking action to “make” your desire happen. Inspired action is allowing the law to work through you and to move you.
  
  Activity feels hard. Inspired action feels wonderful.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Moving, Law, Differences

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Climate, Action, Accepting

  "Turnbull attacks climate sceptics". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. July 22, 2011.

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• A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Dream, Attitude

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• Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the mission; everything else is secondary. Don't wait too long for the perfect condition to appear before taking action - there is no such thing as the ideal situation. You create the opportunity and make the most of the talent God has given you. At the end of your life, you want to look back and say, "It's been all worthwhile. I have tried my best."

  Khoo Swee Chiow

  Opportunity, Long, Perfect

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• If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

  Xunzi

  Motivational, Achievement, Effort

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• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• One can only forget about time by making use of it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Time, Use

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

  Byron Katie

  Peace, People, Action

  "Stop Second Guessing Yourself". Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

  Eric Holder

  Senior, Leader, President

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• Look twice before you leap.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Women, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.158, Everyman's Library

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  Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thankful, Positivity

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2014

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• As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

  Margaret Laurence

  Earth Day, Environmental, Should

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• One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Fate, Hands, Differences

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• Service is taking action to create value for someone else.

  Ron Kaufman

  Action, Values

  "Building a Culture of Uplifting Service, with Ron Kaufman" by Ron Kaufman, speaking.com.

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• Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Three, Action

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