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Quotes about action
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Action is eloquence. (Burns John)
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. (Burns John)
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. (Burns John)
Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. (Burns John)
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. (Burns John)
Heaven never helps the men who will not act. (Burns John)
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. (Burns John)
No one will do it for you. (Burns John)
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. (Burns John)
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. (Burns John)
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. (Burns John)
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. (Burns John)
Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set. (Burns John)
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. (Burns John)
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. (Burns John)
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Burns John)
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. (Burns John)
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. (Burns John)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. (Burns John)
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. (Burns John)
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. (Burns John)
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. (Burns John)
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. (Burns John)
Two-thirds of promotion is motion (Burns John)
To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act? (Burns John)
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