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If you can fill the unforgiving
minute with
sixty seconds
worth of distance run,
yours is the earth and
everything that's
in it.
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I cannot praise a fugitive
and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,
that never sallies out
and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,
where the immortal garland
is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
John Milton
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We
are responsible for what we are and what we wish ourselves to be;
we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has
been the result of our past actions,
it certainly follows that whatever
we wish to be in future can be
produced
by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Swami Vivekananda
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Whatever
course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that
you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt
you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One hour of life, crowded
to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole
years of those mean observances of
paltry decorum, in which people steal through
existence, like sluggish
waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Walter
Scott
Those who make a
living fishing know
that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found
these dangers
sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
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Sometimes
our actions are much more meaningful than words.
A hug can sometimes
express more than our words will
ever express. Sometimes, just being there
to
listen is more
meaningful and helpful to people.
Catherine Pulsifer
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People today distinguish
between knowledge and action
and pursue them separately, believing that one must
know before one can act. . . . They say they will wait til
they truly know before putting their knowledge into
practice. Consequently, to the end of their lives,
they will never act and also will never know.
Wang Yang-ming
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It
is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that
human
history is shaped.
Each time a person stands up for
an ideal or strikes out
against injustice, he or she sends forth
a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy
and daring those ripples build
a current which can sweep down the
mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Few are they who have never
had a chance to achieve
happiness--and fewer those who have taken that
chance.
Andre Maurois
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I've been very blessed in life because I've never been
afraid to take action. Often it turns out poorly or painfully and I have
to deal with consequences, but I would much prefer to deal with those than
to sit around doing nothing. Passivity has been around forever, but it seems
to have become much more predominant in a culture in which we expect to be
entertained and informed by the mass media and actors and athletes, fed by
restaurants and an ever-increasing amount of ready-to-serve, microwavable
meals, served by the people who run stores and want our return business.
We're fortunate to live in the United States, one of the few countries in
the world where taking a risk is valued, but if we're going to get anything
out of life, we have to be among those who take the risks, not those who
watch others do so. I can truly say that the positive aspects of who I am
have come about because I've been willing to take risks and be hurt, while
those negative parts of me are still there because I'm afraid to face them,
and I'd rather be passive than act to change them.
I meet many people who seem to be unwilling or unable to take
action, no matter how unpleasant their current situation. They're
completely dissatisfied with the way things are, yet they're unwilling to
do anything to change their situations. Most of them are unwilling
to risk their "security," for their incomes are more important
to them than their quality of life. Yet we hear over and over again
that if we're truly to get what we want out of life, we have to take
action. We have to do something, and we can't do it halfway--we must
take the risk.
It's somewhat ironic that many people who refuse to act are
forced into positions in which they must act, either by layoffs, the death
or departure of a spouse, or other changes. Usually, these people
get by quite well, and many of them actually thrive, for they're finally
in a position in which they have to depend upon themselves, in which they
have to act, to be assertive in getting what they want out of life.
They have to act, and they have to act today--it's a position most people
don't want to find themselves in, but in which many people find
themselves--find out who they are and what they're capable of.
Longfellow said it well: "Act, act in the living
present." Right now is all we have, isn't it? And we
can't sit around waiting for life to happen to us--I learned long
ago that that is not the way things work. Actions give us
results to work with, and actions.
tom
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Conditions are never
just right. People who delay action
until all factors are favorable
do nothing.
William Feather |
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There are risks and costs to
a program of action. But they are far less
than the long-range risks
and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F.
Kennedy |
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To
know what has to be done, then do it,
comprises
the whole philosophy of practical life.
William Osler
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The person who will not execute
his or her resolutions when
they are
fresh upon him or her can have no hope from them
afterwards;
they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry
and
scurry of the world,
or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Marie
Edgeworth
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The wise person does at once
what the fool
does finally.
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Action is the
antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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Everything
comes to those
who hustle while they wait.
Thomas Alva
Edison
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There
is only one proof
of ability: action.
Marie
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When you're
frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of
doing will give you back your courage.
Grace
Ogot |
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It
will never rain roses: when we want
to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George
Eliot
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Life begets life.
Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes
rich.
Sarah Bernhardt |
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It
is in our power to stretch out our arms
and, by doing
good in our
actions,
to seize life and set it in our soul.
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judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of
gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.
Good Reading
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I have long
since come to believe that people never mean
half of what
they say, and that it is best to disregard
their talk and judge
only their actions.
Dorothy Day |
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Virtue is not to be considered in the
light of mere innocence,
or abstaining
from harm; but as the exertion of
our faculties
in doing good.
Joseph Butler
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People are always blaming
circumstances for what they are. I don't
believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are
the people
who get up
and look for the circumstances they want
and if they can't find them, make
them.
George Bernard Shaw |
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You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Carl Jung |
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Live your truth. Express
your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action
towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music.
Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
Steve Maraboli
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All human
actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance,
nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
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Imagination means nothing without doing.
Charles Chaplin |
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Too many times we stand aside
And let the waters slip away
'Til what we put off for tomorrow
Has now become today
So don't you sit upon the shoreline
And say you're satisfied
Choose to chance the rapids
And dare to dance the tide. . . .
And there's bound to be rough waters
And I know I'll take some falls
But with the good Lord as my captain
I can make it through them all
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Wishing
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true;
Rid your mind of selfish motives;
Let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start,
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart.
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to pass on knowledge
You must get it, ere you give.
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way;
For the pleasures of the many
May be oft times traced to one,
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.
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