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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre, 1847
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.: Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.: Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
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