Action

(44 votes)   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 courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville
1819-1891, American Author

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(44 votes)   You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Lou Gerstner
American Business Excessive, Chairman of IBM

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(43 votes)   Be both the gardener and the rose.

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(43 votes)   Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]

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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(43 votes)   If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci
1891-1937, Italian Political Theorist

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(43 votes)   If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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(43 votes)   It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

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(43 votes)   Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Joan L. Curcio

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(43 votes)   Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Russel H. Conwell
1843-1925, American Lawyer, Baptist Minister, Lecturer

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(43 votes)   Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edward Edwards

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(43 votes)   The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(43 votes)   We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

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(43 votes)   What we need is to use what we have.

Basil S. Walsh

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(42 votes)   Allow motion to equal emotion.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(42 votes)   Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Inga Teekens
Dutch Instructor and Counselor

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