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Quotes About Action

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.
~ Mary McCarthy
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
~ Patrick Stewart
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
~ Richard Branson
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.
~ Johann von Goethe
To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.
~ Confucius
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
~ Immanuel Kant
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
~ Charles Dickens
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~ Abraham Maslow
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
~ Howard Thurman
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
~ Julian Bond
Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!
~ Greg Plitt
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
~ Diana Ross
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
~ Glenn Turner
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
~ Honore de Balzac
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
~ Claude Monet
People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.
~ Pandita Ramabai
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
What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
~ Zig Ziglar