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One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

 

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

 

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

 

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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

 

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Never mistake motion for action.

 

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

 

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

 

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.



Frederick Douglass:

 

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

 

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

 

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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

 

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I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

 

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Georges Bernanos:
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much,
and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

 

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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

 

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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence.

 

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Great talent finds happiness in execution.

 

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

 

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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

 

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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

 

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.