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

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

Performance releases pressure.

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.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

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

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

The most effective way to do it is to do it.

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

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

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

Act-act in the living present!

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

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

Begin doing what you want to do now.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him 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.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

Talking is easy action difficult.

Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

Something must happen!

After getting myself relatively educated in the area of national transformation, I have come to discover that it makes better sense to look at what I could do to fix the problems of the society rather than blaming others for what is wrong in the country.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

To do is to be.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

By his deeds we know a man.

The beginning is half of every action.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?