Action

(42 votes)   Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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(42 votes)   Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverbs

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(42 votes)   In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Rene Char

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(42 votes)   Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Heber J. Grant

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(42 votes)   No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(42 votes)   Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(42 votes)   To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?

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(42 votes)   You can't aim a duck to death.

Gael Boardman
American Politician

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(41 votes)   Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Bishop Robert South
1634-1716, British Clergyman

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(41 votes)   Do it now. Then it's done.

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(41 votes)   If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Bishop Robert South
1634-1716, British Clergyman

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(40 votes)   Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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(40 votes)   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
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(40 votes)   Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Edgar F. Magnin

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(37 votes)   The ancestor of every action is thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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