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Eleanor Roosevelt2 quotes
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1960Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1963Annie Besant1 quote
Someone ought to do it, so why not I? — Annie Besant · 1893Benjamin Disraeli1 quote
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1870Blaise Pascal1 quote
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Francis Bacon1 quote
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. — Francis Bacon · 1605Lawrence Weiner1 quote
You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it. — Lawrence Weiner · 2015Malala Yousafzai1 quote
Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it. — Malala Yousafzai · 2013Marcus Aurelius1 quote
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Maya Angelou1 quote
Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong. — Maya Angelou · 1986Peter Drucker1 quote
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker · 1963Plutarch1 quote
It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper. — PlutarchSoren Kierkegaard1 quote
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843T.H. Huxley1 quote
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. — T.H. Huxley · 1877Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1910Thomas Paine1 quote
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. — Thomas Paine · 1776William Graham Sumner1 quote
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Yoda1 quote
No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980