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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. -- Honore de Balzac
Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. -- Caroline Myss
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. -- John Burroughs
Any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
the shell must break before the bird can fly. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The day will happen whether or not you get up. -- John Ciardi
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. -- Robert H. Schuller
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. -- Thomas Carlyle
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. -- Benjamin Franklin
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. -- Howard Zinn
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -- Confucius
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. -- Vaclav Havel
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -- Wayne Dyer
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -- Andrew Carnegie
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. -- Eknath Easwaran
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -- Leonardo da Vinci
If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all! -- Neale Donald Walsch
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. -- Jack Canfield
As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. -- Eckhart Tolle
Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. -- Eckhart Tolle
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. -- Billie Jean King
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action. -- Illeana Douglas
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. -- Max Carver
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action. -- Pericles
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. -- Therese Fowler
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. -- Ang Lee
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. -- Theresa May
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. -- Auberon Herbert
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. -- John Henrik Clarke
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. -- Peter Diamandis
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I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action. -- Jody Williams
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well! -- Hayden Panettiere
The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. -- Ferdinand Mount
We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games. -- Bob McNair
While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people. -- Dave Reichert
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it. -- Jack Canfield
I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song. -- Action Bronson
Taking action births motivation. -- Greg Smith
Making mistakes is a way of taking action. -- Paulo Coelho
I am not taking legal action against any team-mate. -- Saido Berahino
Keep taking new action, new path and new adventures. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you start taking consistent action, you will see results. -- Marie Forleo
Service is taking action to create value for someone else. -- Ron Kaufman
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is. -- Ann Voskamp
Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action. -- Steve Fisher
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action. -- Andy Gilbert
Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action -- J. Willard Marriott
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. -- Anthony Eden
Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action. -- Susan Oakey-Baker
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens. -- Seth Godin
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. -- Joseph M. Juran
Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action. -- T.F. Hodge
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. -- Richard M. Nixon
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. -- Confucius
Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path. -- Camron Wright
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell. -- Whoopi Goldberg
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action -- Chester Barnard
The only regret we should have is allowing regret to hold us back from taking action now. -- Charles F. Glassman
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me... -- Madonna Ciccone
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. -- Mort Sahl
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. -- A. J. Jacobs
The entire customer or user experience-from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support-is going digital. -- Colleen Jones
Wisdom comes from life experience; life experience is the result of repeatedly taking corrective action while courageously learning from mistakes. -- Ken Poirot
Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it. -- Zig Ziglar
Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough. -- Confucius
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action. -- Clifton Anderson
Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you. -- Keith Olbermann
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action. -- Tony Robbins
Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons. -- Jhoon Goo Rhee
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action! -- Ray Kroc
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. -- Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. -- Eckhart Tolle
The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond. -- will.i.am
Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind. -- Amit Kalantri
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. -- Laozi
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. -- Roy Bennett
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. -- Jim Butcher
The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances. -- Halle Berry
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue. -- Lauren Mackler
Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire. -- Joel Brown
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward... -- Martha Beck
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction. -- Bill Vaughan
That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet. -- Adrian Grenier
In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action. -- Meg Greenfield
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential. -- Warren G. Bennis
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds. -- Mary Robinson
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them. -- Charlotte Bunch
Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way. -- Debasish Mridha
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action. -- David Brooks
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year. -- Chris Christie
Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action. -- Marcelo Claure
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision. -- Franz Grillparzer
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. -- John Jay Chapman
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat. -- Paulo Coelho
In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope. -- Diahann Carroll
Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction. -- Tony Robbins
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home. -- Taslima Nasrin

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