"ACTION QUOTES"

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France -

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard -

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts,
brave by doing brave acts.
- Aristotle -

Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli -

There are no gains without pains.
- Benjamin Franklin -

We cannot seek or attain health,
wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general.
Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
- Benjamin Jowett -

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke -

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard -

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
- Ella Williams -

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus -

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway -

It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt -

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but
more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw -

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
- George Eliot -

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
- George Bernanos -

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller -

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.
- John Wesley -

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more
than much knowledge that is idle.
- Kahlil Gibran -

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter -

There are basically two types of people.
People who accomplish things,
and people who claim to have accomplished things.
The first group is less crowded.
- Mark Twain -

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver -

To will is to select a goal,
determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal,
and then hold to that action till the goal is reached.
The key is action.
- Michael Hanson -

"Do-so" is more important than "say-so".
- Pete Seeger -

The world is filled with willing people,
some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost -

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