Action

(150 votes)   'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(139 votes)   I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(134 votes)   Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Immanuel Kant
1724-1804, German Philosopher

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(132 votes)   What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord
American Writer

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(122 votes)   Winning starts with beginning.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(119 votes)   Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wallace D. Wattles

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(118 votes)   The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Gypsy Proverbs
Sayings of Gypsy Origin

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(117 votes)   No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(116 votes)   Act quickly, think slowly.

Greek Proverbs
Sayings of Greek Origin

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(116 votes)   Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(115 votes)   Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(114 votes)   It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(111 votes)   Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Percy Ross
American Columnist

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(111 votes)   Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Les Brown
1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

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(109 votes)   It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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