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Acting With Purpose

The gap between intention and action is where most lives are quietly lost.

50 quotes found

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

—Swami VivekanandaPhilosopher

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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Work like hell. I mean, you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Youth is a fire that burns brightly; we must protect it from being extinguished.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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No one can stop you but you. Go get it.

—Nicki MinajArtist

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Who has ever attained anything great without a great passion?

—Friedrich SchillerPoet, Philosopher & Playwright

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

—Jalal ad-Din RumiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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To change is to be brave. To stay the same is to be a coward.

—Buchi EmechetaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

—Paulo CoelhoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Always putting limits on what you do will spread into your work and life.

—Bruce LeeMartial Artist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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Better to die going West than live remaining East.

—XuanzangScholar

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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You are the fixer. You are the builder. You are the one who puts yourself back together.

—Nikita GillPoet & Author

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

—Ousmane SembèneNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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We all come from dust and to dust we must return. But we got something to do here.

—Earl LovelaceNovelist & Playwright

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

—Anton ChekhovWriter & Playwright

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are, is that you are yourself.

—Lorraine HansberryPlaywright & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I?

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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