Quotes about Action (page 14)

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
MisattributedNot by Anais Nin. Earliest known source: Probably Elizabeth Appell (1984). · evidenceDetails & citeAction
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Herman Melville; no source in their known works. · evidenceDetails & citeAction
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
MisattributedNot by Mark Twain. Earliest known source: H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You (1990), quoting his mother. · evidenceDetails & citeAction
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