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One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

~ Florence Nightingale

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

~ John Milton

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I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

~ Dorothy Uhnak

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When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

~ Giosue Borsi

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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

~ Stanley Kubrick

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Words gain credibility by deed.

~ Terence

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Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

~ Molière

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

~ W. D. Howells

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Well done is better than well said.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

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We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

~ Abigail Adams

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Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

~ James A. Worsham

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When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

~ Colleen C. Barrett

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Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

~ Sallust

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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

~ John Cage

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Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

~ Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher Getting Going

All worthwhile men have good thoughts good ideas and good intentions but precious few of them ever translate those into action.

~ John Hancock Field

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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.

~ Georges Bernanos

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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

~ Johann Von Goethe

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

~ Benedetto Croce

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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

~ Nicolas De Chamfort

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What you theoretically know vividly realize.

~ Francis Thompson

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We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

~ William Ellery Channing

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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

~ Elbert Hubbard

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

~ Tehyi Hsieh

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It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

~ Charles Sanders Peirce

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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

~ Chinese Proverb

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We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

~ Vauvenargues

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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

~ Publilius Syrus

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

~ Eva Young

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.

~ Janet Erskine Stuart

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Do what you can with what you have where you are.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

~ Barbara Sher

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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

~ Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher Getting Going

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

~ Wendell Phillips

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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

~ Pearl S. Buck

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

~ Mary Todd Lincoln

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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.

~ Audre Lorde

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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

~ Horace

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