"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

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"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

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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

Action, Time, Motivational, Opportunity

"But it is not always the people who say most who do most."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."

John Green, American Author

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"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

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"Anger is the prelude to courage."

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"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

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"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

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"Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are."

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"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."

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