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In life lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough. You must take action.

Tony Robbins

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

David Viscott

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

Lily Tomlin

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Jean Paul Richter

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Miguel de Cervantes

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Horace Mann

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

He that excuses himself accuses himself.

French proverbs

Every one is the son of his own works.

Miguel de Cervantes

The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.

Spanish proverbs

He that cannot is always willing.

Italian proverbs

Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver