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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Saunders

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Victor Hugo

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Thomas Carlyle

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
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Lewis Cass

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.
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Source Unknown

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Alfred North Whitehead

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Elbert Hubbard

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Real action is in silent moments.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
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Edward Edwards

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
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Peter Levi

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
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Source Unknown

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Some will, some don't, so what!
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American Proverb

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Warren Buffett

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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David Letterman

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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Peter F. Drucker

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.
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Les Brown

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Talk doesn't cook rice.
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Chinese Proverb

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
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Chinese Proverb

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
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Francis Hutcheson

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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John Locke

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The ancestor of every action is thought.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best way to get something done is to begin.
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Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun