"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."
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"Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!"
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"What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action."
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"Silence, and non action are the root of all things."
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"Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
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"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
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"Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
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"The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it."
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"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."
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"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions."
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"If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion."
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"The shortest answer is doing."
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"As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action."
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"Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation."
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"People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action."
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"One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention."
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"My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."
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