"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."

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"Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Do it or not, but do."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."

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"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."

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"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."

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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."

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"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."

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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

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