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African Proverb

Put out the fire while it is small.

Topic: Action
Location: Graeagle
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Reverence your elder, for the man excelling in age excels in wisdom. — African Proverb

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When one would climb a tree, one begins from the bottom and not from the top. — African Proverb

If you do not rise when you do not want to, you will not arrive when you want to. — African Proverb

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. — African Proverb

The death of an elderly man is like a burning library. — African Proverb

He who argues builds no roads. — African Proverb

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Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. — African Proverb

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That which leaks cannot stay full. — African Proverb

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When one cow has started to move it raises the others from their rest. — African Proverb

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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal

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It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

› Ernest Hemingway

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal. — Bruce Lee

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However brilliant an action is should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. — Rochefoucauld

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. — Nelson Mandela

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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. — Ayn Rand

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Chinese Proverb

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare

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Not willing to make more mistakes leads to less success. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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You don't milk a cow with your hands in your pockets. — Russian Proverb

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. — Voltaire

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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. — Mencius

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

› George Bernard Shaw

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Little strokes, fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. — Thomas H. Huxley

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There is both visible and invisible labor. — Victor Hugo

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Big achievements start with a small one. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them. — Frederick Douglass

Action Freedom Leadership

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. — Mother Teresa

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. — Confucius

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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today. — Lou Holtz

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It's not what you look at but what you see, say, believe, and do that matters. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action carries more truth than words. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. — Thomas Jefferson

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