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"We make the road by walking"
Paulo Freire
"Action is the real measure of intelligence"
Napoleon Hill
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
Simone de Beauvoir
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action"
Meister Eckhart
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'"
Charles Dickens
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results"
Mahatma Gandhi
"The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it then keep on doing it and finally you'll finish it"
Langston Hughes
"Execution is the chariot of genius "
William Blake
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs"
Frederick Douglass
"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"When you can't make them see the light make them feel the heat"
Ronald Reagan
"It is not enough to possess a good mind; one must also apply it"
Rene Descartes
"The shortest answer is doing the thing"
Ernest Hemingway
"The environment shapes people's actions."
B. F. Skinner
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
Rabindranath Tagore
"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act"
Plato
"Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly."
Alain de Botton
"If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something"
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be"
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built."
Fernando Pessoa
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