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Quotes about action
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You have to make it happen. (Burns John)
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. (Burns John)
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. (Burns John)
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. (Burns John)
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. (Burns John)
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. (Burns John)
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. (Burns John)
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. (Burns John)
Never confuse motion with action. (Burns John)
Action is the real measure of intelligence. (Burns John)
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. (Burns John)
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. (Burns John)
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Burns John)
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Burns John)
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. (Burns John)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (Burns John)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. (Burns John)
When all is said and done, more is said than done. (Burns John)
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. (Burns John)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning (Burns John)
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. (Burns John)
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. (Burns John)
Allow motion to equal emotion. (Burns John)
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. (Burns John)
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. (Burns John)
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