Action

(89 votes)   Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(88 votes)   A well begun is half ended.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(88 votes)   Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

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(87 votes)   Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian

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(86 votes)   We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(85 votes)   Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(85 votes)   From small beginnings come great things.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(85 votes)   Talk doesn't cook rice.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(84 votes)   Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(84 votes)   The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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

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(83 votes)   Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(83 votes)   The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(82 votes)   Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(81 votes)   Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(80 votes)   Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

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

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