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• No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

  Clifton Anderson

  Way, Guarantees, Action

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• Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

  Andy Gilbert

  Giving, Action, Planning

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• You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Action, Responsible

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2014

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• Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Action, Logical

  Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”

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• We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didn’t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.

  Fujio Cho

  Mistake, Practice, Trying

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• Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

  Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

  Taken, Action, Lost

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• And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

  David Blunkett

  Taken, Thinking, Would Be

  "Interview with British Home Secretary David Blunkett". "CNN Live on Location" with Judy Wiidruff, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2003.

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• Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

  Seth Godin

  Video, Action, Happens

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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?”
  My answer is “Because that's what love does.”
  To think that we need sadness or outrage
  to motivate us to do what's right is insane.
  As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become.
  As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day
  with drool running down her chin.
  My experience is the opposite.
  Love is action.

  Byron Katie

  Running, Sadness, Love Is

  "Loving Without Exception". Omega Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

  Peter Drucker

  Degenerates, Action, Happens

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• Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

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• Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

  Theresa May

  Country, Technology, Track

  "Theresa May hits back in coalition clash over 'snooper's charter'" by Alan Travis, Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Future, Risk

  "Raw Data: Madonna's Pro-Wesley Clark Letter". www.foxnews.com. January 08, 2004.

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• Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

  Steven Brust

  Fashion, Understanding, Eccentric

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.98, Macmillan

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• I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

  Jody Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Worry

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• Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Remember You

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• Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Encouragement, Accomplishment

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• The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

  Dwight Morrow

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3

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• We're taking action against evil people. Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil. This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it - good will prevail.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mistake, Inspiration

  "Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers reacts to ISIS plan". www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2015.

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• To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Inspirational, Believe, Miracle

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• Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Water, Pebbles

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• One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  Grace Hopper

  Women, Experts, Measurement

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• Artemis must be present at the solstice," Zoe said. "She has been the most vocal on the council, arguing for taking action against Kronos's minions. If she is not there, the gods will decide nothing. We will lose another year of war preparations." Are you sugesting the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysis asked. Yes, Lord Dionysis." Mr.D nodded. "Just checking. Your right, of course. Carry on.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Years, Preparation

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• There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Two, Action

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 16, 2014

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