"When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace."
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"We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference."
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"We don't win what we don't fight for."
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"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it."
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"What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do."
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"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through."
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"It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it."
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"Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone."
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"I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action."
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"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."
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"[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action."
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"Character is revealed through action."
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"Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure."
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action."
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"More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question."
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"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."
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"You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you."
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"Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan."
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"God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions."
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"Logic won't change an emotion but action will."
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