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Action

Act Now! This opportunity may be withdrawn at any time. (This opportunity is called life.)
Pot Shots
It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.
Author Unknown
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
Ecclesiastes
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Carl Rowan
The greatest potential for controlling the ends is to exist at the point where action takes place.
Louis A. Allen
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
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.
Eric Hoffer
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin P. Whipple
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
Author Unknown
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Author Unknown
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.
Unknown
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
William James
None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.
Author Unknown
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Andra Malraux
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
To respond is positive; to react is negative.
Zig Ziglar

8/6/08

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