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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action speaks louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action speaks louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/529]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way out is always through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way out is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/505]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all light, all influence, all fate,   Nothing to him falls early or too late.    Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions,   To reach new spheres of pure activity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any one can count the seeds in an apple..Only God can count the apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any one can count the seeds in an apple..Only God can count the apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wind scattering dandelion spores or maple samaras Lind the NASA shuttle which when it exploded sent people and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wind scattering dandelion spores or maple samaras Lind the NASA shuttle which when it exploded sent people and thousands of captive lab animals over 6 states the innocent little nameless Mad Cow* was decimated after drawn and quartered and sent by porters to 4 states' quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item></channel></rss>