Action

(60 votes)   Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heinrich Heine
1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist

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(60 votes)   The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Mal Pancoast

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(59 votes)   Action is the foundational key to all success.

Anthony Robbins
1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant

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(59 votes)   Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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(59 votes)   It is better to rust out than wear out.

George Whitefield
1714-1970, British Methodist Evangelist

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(59 votes)   Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Ted Turner
1938-, American Businessman, Founder of CNN

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(59 votes)   Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Daniel Webster
1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman

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(59 votes)   Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(58 votes)   I didn't think; I experimented.

Wilhelm Roentgen

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(58 votes)   There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Martha Graham
1894-1991, American Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer

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(58 votes)   When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(57 votes)   All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(57 votes)   Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Anne Byrhhe

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(57 votes)   I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(56 votes)   Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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