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Quotes about action
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. (Burns John)
What you are will show in what you do. (Burns John)
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. (Burns John)
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. (Burns John)
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. (Burns John)
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. (Burns John)
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. (Burns John)
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. (Burns John)
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (Burns John)
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. (Burns John)
There is a tendency for things to right themselves. (Burns John)
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. (Burns John)
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. (Burns John)
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. (Burns John)
The ancestor of every action is thought. (Burns John)
Real action is in silent moments. (Burns John)
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. (Burns John)
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. (Burns John)
We are always getting ready to live, but never living. (Burns John)
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. (Burns John)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Burns John)
No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth. (Burns John)
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Burns John)
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. (Burns John)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Burns John)
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