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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!
Steve Maraboli
Interrupt your thoughts of I should, with your action of doing.
Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it!
Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.
What is all Knowledge too, but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials.
Thomas Carlyle
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.
Margaret Atwood
There is nothing more dangerous to the shackles of complacency and the warden of fear than philosophy in action.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking....
William B. Sprague
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
C.S. Lewis
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
Daniel Webster
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
Leo Tolstoy
Don't tell me with words; show me with results.
Anonymous
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France
INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.
the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am participating in the evolution of inspired action.
It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.