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 There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance

 There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance

 Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
  Henri Bergson

 Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
  Socrates

 Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs
  Lord Byron

 Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

 Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction
(
The translation follows thus

Karmani ave adhikars te
--you have the power to act only
ma phalesu kadachana
--you do not have the power to influence the result
ma karmaphal hetur bhoo
--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result
ma sangostu akramani
--without succumbing to inaction
)

 Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
  Horace Walpole

 To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
  Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 To know and not to do is not to know

 To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
  Emanuel Swedenborg

 Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.


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