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Life Quotes... Action
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what
men say. I just watch
what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Violence of language leads to violence of
action. Angry men seldom
fight if their tongues do not lead the fray.”
Charles Victor Roman
“If you are not part of the solution, you are
part of the problem.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what
is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You don't learn to hold your own in the world
by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered
yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man who has to be convinced to act before he
acts is not a man of action...You must act as you breathe.”
Georges Clemenceau
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I have always thought the actions of men the
best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke
“A person may cause evil to others not only by
his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly
accountable to them for the injury.”
John Stuart Mill
“Always behave like a duck - keep calm and
unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”
Lord Barbizon
“No one is more liable to make mistakes than
the man who acts only on reflection.”
Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
“Talk without effort is nothing.”
Maria W. Stewart
“The best way to make your dreams come true is
to wake up.”
Paul Valery
“It is the mark of a good action that it
appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.
Don't fall victim to what I call the
"ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to
fire.”
T. Boone Pickens
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he
waits.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“The great end of life is not knowledge but
action.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get
run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
“He who desires but acts not, breeds
pestilence.”
William Blake
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never
take.”
“Excuses interest no one except the
competition.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”
“Only people who do things get criticized.”
“He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his
mouth must wait a very, very long time.”
“Your food is close to your stomach, but you
must put it in your mouth first.”
“When the snake is in the house, one needs not
discuss the matter of length.”
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