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Action
may not always
bring happiness;
but there is no happiness
without action.
Benjamin
Disraeli
(this quotation is also
attributed to William James)
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I do the very best I know how--the
very best I can; and I mean
to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings
me out all right,
what is said against me won't amount to anything.
If the
end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing
I was right would make no
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Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
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Young people say, What is the sense of our small
effort? They cannot see that they must lay one brick at a time;
we can be
responsible only for the one action
at the present moment. But we can beg
for
an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize
and transform all
our individual actions,
and know that God will take them and multiply them,
as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
Dorothy Day
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The best portion of a good
person's
life,--
Their little nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth |
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No one can write their real religious life
with pen or pencil. It is written only
in actions, and its seal is our character,
not our orthodoxy. Whether we,
our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely
the only value of our religious life
to ourselves or to anyone is what it
fits us for and enables us to do.
Wilfred T. Grenfell |
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Even if you're on the
right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers |
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We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe old ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it,
This mystical world of ours,
Life's field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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I have never been bored
an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous
thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
Lady
Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only
some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes,
they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow.
But me, I give her the wink
and away we go.
William Allen White |
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The main thing is to be honest with yourself,
know and recognize your limits
and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example
get more satisfaction
from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could,
than from attempting Everest,
which I couldn't.
Stirling Moss |
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Every successful business in the world is
in existence because its founder recognized
in a problem or need an opportunity
to be of service to others. Every problem or need
in your life is in reality
an opportunity to call forth inner resources
of wisdom, love, strength, and
ability.
J. Sig Paulson |
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We are like people
on a moving sidewalk which is
going the wrong way. If we stand still, our goal
recedes. If we walk at an easy pace we barely keep
from slipping back. Only through extra effort
can we win real
gains.
Harry K.
Wolfe |
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When you get into a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems
as though you could not hold on a minute
longer, never give up then, for that is
just the place and the time that
the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Say
well is good, but do well is better;
Do well seems the spirit, say well the letter;
Say well is Godly and helps to please,
But do well is Godly and gives the world ease.
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There is a tendency among many shallow
thinkers of our day to teach
that every human act is a reflex, over which
we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more
praiseworthy than a wink, a crime
as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . .
Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power
of choice in action at every moment of our lives.
Fulton J. Sheen |
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Not enjoyment and not
sorrow
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us further than today. . . .
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act--act in the living present!
Heart within, and God overhead!
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To obtain happiness in another
world we need only to believe something;
to secure it in this world, we must
do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Happiness is an expression of the soul
in considered
actions.
Aristotle |
We have too
many high sounding words,
and too few actions to correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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This nation was built by
people who took risks--pioneers who were not afraid
of the wilderness, business
people who were not afraid of failure,
scientists who were not afraid of the
truth, thinkers who were not afraid
of progress, dreamers who were not afraid
of action.
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All life is a chance. So take it!
The
person who goes the furthest
is the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie |
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Having the world's best
idea will do you no good unless you act on it.
People who want milk
shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle
of a field in hopes that a cow will
back up to them.
Curtis Grant
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We have to
understand that the world can only be grasped
by action, not by
contemplation.
Jacob Bronowski
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Deliberation
is the work of many people.
Action, of one alone.
Charles
de Gaulle
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The way of
the sage is to act
but not to compete.
Lao-Tzu |
I will not steep my speech in
lies;
the test of any person lies in action.
Pindar |
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One must learn by doing the
thing; though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
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So much attention is
paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty
and greed with all
their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid
to the passive sins,
such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run
can have a more
devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I
got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some
marmalade.
It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and
scrub the floor.
D.H.
Lawrence
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You know, we
can't get out of life alive.
We can either die in the bleachers or die
on the field.
We might as well come down on the field and go for it!
Les Brown
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Look at a day when you are
supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around
doing nothing.
It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done
it.
Margaret Thatcher
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is better than inertia. Act, but with self-control. . . .
The
world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when
actions are
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Let not
the fruit of action be your motive to action.
Your business is
with action alone, not with the fruit of action. |
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Perform
all necessary acts, for action is better than inaction;
none can
live by sitting still and doing nought; it is by action only
that a
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Every moral act of love, of
mercy, and of sacrifice brings
to pass the end of the world where hatred,
cruelty,
and selfishness reign supreme.
Nicholas
Berdyaev
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I will
act as if I do make a difference.
William
James
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After
all, it's what we do
that makes us what we are.
Jim Croce |
Words
are nothing but words; power lies in deeds.
Be a person of
action.
Mali
Oriot Mamadu Konyate |
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If we do
not change our daily lives,
we cannot change the world.
Thich
Nhat Hanh
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Any
powerful idea is absolutely fascinating -- and absolutely useless
unless we choose to use it.
Richard
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Good
thoughts are no better
than good dreams if you
don't follow through.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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What we think, or what
we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The
only thing of consequence is what we do.
John
Ruskin
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Dig the
well before you are thirsty.
Chinese
proverb
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Just as iron rusts from
disuse,
even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A
good action is never lost;
it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."
Pedro
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The
critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.
It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are
few
who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not
next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a
dreamer.
Nolan Bushnell |
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Dwell not
on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.
Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person,
filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand,
uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Eileen
Caddy
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If
you limit your actions in life to things that nobody
can possibly find
fault with, you will not do much.
Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson
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The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
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