"Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
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"Passion is the genesis of genius."
"When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future."
"The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work."
"Right attitudes produces right action"
"Emotion without action is irrelevant."
"Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit."
"It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth."
"He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars."
"When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will."
"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."
"A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it."
"Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it."
"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
"History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future."
"Who needs action when you got words?"
"For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person."
"We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others."
"Act the part and you will become the part."
"What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place."