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Action is character.
Source Unknown
The only way to start is to start.
This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Siddha Nagarjuna
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
What we need is to use what we have.
Basil S. Walsh
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
D'Alembert
Once you're moving you can keep moving.
Ronald Alan Weiss
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
Og Mandino
You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
He who limps is still walking.
Stanislaw Lec
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Troward
Either move or be moved.
Colin Powell
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Orison Swett Marden