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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. -- Suze Orman
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. -- Barack Obama
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not. -- Mark McKinnon
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. -- Deepak Chopra
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - -- Janette Turner Hospital
The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed -- John Wooden
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. -- Veronica Roth
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act. -- Harry S. Truman
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. -- David Suzuki
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Andre Malraux
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. -- Dorothea Brande
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.' -- Wayne Dyer
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense. -- Theodore Roosevelt
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be? -- Scott Rudin
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. -- Sebastian Thrun
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. -- Peter Morgan
One's only real regret in life is the failure to act. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Act as if there is no chance of failure. -- Debasish Mridha
Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all. -- John Wooden
The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure. -- Samael Aun Weor
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature -- Wayne Grudem
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings -- Silken Laumann
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure. -- Saul Bass
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. -- Madeleine Albright
When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure. -- Chris Prentiss

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