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| People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. Lewis Cass Quotes |
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| I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J. Lock Quotes |
| The best way out of a problem is through it. Author Unknown Quotes |
| All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. William F. Halsey Quotes |
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| As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| When deeds speak, words are nothing. African Proverb Quotes |
| Men expect too much, do too little. Allen Tate Quotes |
| Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. Tehyi Hsieh Quotes |
| Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin Quotes |
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| One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? George Clason Quotes |
| He that waits upon Fortune is never sure of a dinner. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. William R. Inge Quotes |
| Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. Jonatan Mårtensson Quotes |
| What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes |
| Don't find fault. Find a remedy. Henry Ford Quotes |
| He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. Antonio Porchia Quotes |
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| The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. Vance Havner Quotes |
| We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. Harold Nicolson Quotes |
| The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman Quotes |
| Action worships the deed. Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated Quotes |
| He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. John McPhee Quotes |
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| Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. Grey Livingston Quotes |
| Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez Quotes |
| Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. Maria Edgeworth Quotes |
| If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser Quotes |
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| I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. G.K. Chesterton Quotes |
| The first step binds one to the second. French Proverb Quotes |
| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Nicolas de Chamfort Quotes |
| All know the way; few actually walk it. Bodhidharma Quotes |
| Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
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| If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. Charles Barkley Quotes |
| Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Talk doesn't cook rice. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
| Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Walter Anderson Quotes |
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| Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Washington Irving, adapted from a verse Quotes |
| Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
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| Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall Quotes |
| Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Francis Quotes |
| An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold Glasow Quotes |
| A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. Arabian Proverb Quotes |
| We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt Quotes |
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| Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. Walter Linn Quotes |
| He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. William James Quotes |
| Take it easy -- but take it. Woody Guthrie Quotes |
| Do, or do not. There is no try. Yoda Quotes |
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| We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering. Victor Frankl Quotes |
| Our acts make or mar us, -- we are The Children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. Vaclav Havel Quotes |
| Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes |
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| Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas H. Huxley Quotes |
| I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins Quotes |
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| Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Talmud (attributed) Quotes |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. Robert L. Stevenson Quotes |
| The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost Quotes |
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| The shortest answer is doing. Lord Herbert Quotes |
| Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| A man's best friends are his ten fingers. Robert Collyer Quotes |
| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works. (sermon, October 15, 1826) Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| "Do-so" is more important than "say-so." Pete Seeger Quotes |
| You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
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| The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. Paul Ricoeur Quotes |
| Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Quotes |
| Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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| Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Moliere Quotes |
| The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. Mohandas Gandhi Quotes |
| Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves. Mohammed Quotes |
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| To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. Michael Hanson Quotes |
| Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver Quotes |
| There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. Mark Twain Quotes |
| You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
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| A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Quotes |
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| After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang Quotes |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Quotes |
| There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. Laurence J. Peter Quotes |
| By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it. Kenneth Patton (adapted) Quotes |
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| A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley Quotes |
| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Quotes |
| As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. John Dewey Quotes |
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| Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey Quotes |
| Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes Quotes |
| I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning -- organize. Joe Hill Quotes |
| I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams Quotes |
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| To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. Hugh Prather Quotes |
| Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. Holocaust Museum Quotes |
| We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. Herman Melville Quotes |
| The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do The Children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller Quotes |
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| I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller Quotes |
| Knowing is not enough; we must apply! Goethe Quotes |
| Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence. Goethe Quotes |
| Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Goethe Quotes |
| Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. Italian Proverb Quotes |
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| The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. George Eliot Quotes |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
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| In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. Epictetus Quotes |
| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus Quotes |
| Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Ella Williams Quotes |
| You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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| We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. Edwin Markham Quotes |
| Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself. Edward Ericson Quotes |
| The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke (attributed) Quotes |
| All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not. Dhammapada Quotes |
| It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. Danilo Dolci Quotes |
| There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. Cyrus Curtis Quotes |
| When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. Colleen C. Barrett Quotes |
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| Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Charlotte Whitton Quotes |
| The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. Cesar Chavez Quotes |
| We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes |
| We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. Benjamin Jowett Quotes |
| There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold Toynbee Quotes |
| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard Quotes |
| Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle Quotes |
| One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Ann Radcliffe Quotes |
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| To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France Quotes |
| Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anais Nin Quotes |
| We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope Quotes |
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| If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. Alex Noble Quotes |
| The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| I never worry about action, but only about inaction Winston Churchill Quotes |
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| If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. Tom Krause Quotes |
| The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams Quotes |
| 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. Karen Ravn Quotes |
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| I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. Mae West Quotes |
| Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. Bill Owens Quotes |
| A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. Bo Bennett Quotes |
| 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. G. M. Trevelyan Quotes |
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| Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen Quotes |
| Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn Quotes |
| Action conquers fear. Peter Nivio Zarlenga Quotes |
| The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it. Mae West Quotes |
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| Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often Mark Twain Quotes |
| Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu Quotes |
| Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| Personal power is the ability to take action. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me. Erma Bombeck Quotes |
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| I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes Sara Teasdale Quotes |
| Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. Joel Barker Quotes |
| Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| Courage follows action. Mack R. Douglas Quotes |
| The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. Buddha Quotes |
| The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Real action is in silent moments. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. Moliere Quotes |
| How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Mother Teresa Quotes |
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| 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. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have Brian Koslow Quotes |
| Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Act as if it were impossible to fail Dorthea Brande Quotes |
| To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized. Paul Myer Quotes |
| I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
| An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Buddha Quotes |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Tryon Edwards Quotes |
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| 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. Katherine Mansfield Quotes |
| The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs Lord Byron Quotes |
| When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius Quotes |
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| You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes |
| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed. Peter Brooks Quotes |
| Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato Quotes |
| Action without thought is like shooting without aim. Proverb Quotes |
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| It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Aristotle Quotes |
| Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes |
| The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action William James Quotes |
| Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. Alexander Haig Quotes |
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| The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
| Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton Quotes |
| Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. Ernest Gaines Quotes |
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| The only cure for grief is action. G. H. Lewes Quotes |
| You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. Jerome Brunner Dr. Quotes |
| A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Andre Malraux Quotes |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Words divide us, actions unite us. Tupamoros Quotes |
| I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" General George S. Patton Quotes |
| Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one Lord Jeffrey Quotes |
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| Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle Quotes |
| When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| Leadership is action, not position. Donald H. McGannon Quotes |
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| Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles Quotes |
| The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action Herbert Spencer Quotes |
| We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Mae West Quotes |
| When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift Maya Angelou Quotes |
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| Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France Quotes |
| For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results Dennis Wholey Quotes |
| Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny Tryon Edwards Quotes |
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| Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. Gillian Anderson Quotes |
| While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. Stephen R. Covey Quotes |
| Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve Pehyl Hsieh Quotes |
| Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius Quotes |
| When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy Salman Rushdie Quotes |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
| Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. Robert H. Schuller Quotes |
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| Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| He who hesitates is a damned fool. Mae West Quotes |
| To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial Mark Twain Quotes |
| We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. Aristotle Quotes |
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| How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob Ayn Rand Quotes |
| Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| I dont think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building. Gerard Way Quotes |
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| To know and not to do is not to know Proverb Quotes |
| Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha Quotes |
| I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. George W. Bush Quotes |
| To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes |
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| The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Andre Gide Quotes |
| You must do the thing you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| Successful action tends to become an end in itself Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Evelyn Waugh Quotes |
| We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness John Sterling Quotes |
| For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten Chinese Proverbs Quotes |
| I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes |
| Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing George MacDonald Quotes |
| Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. Louisa May Alcott Quotes |
| Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. William James Quotes |
| The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. A. Godin Quotes |
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| Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama Quotes |
| I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. W. Clement Stone Quotes |
| Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James Quotes |
| Suit the action to the word, the word to the action William Shakespeare Quotes |
| When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes |
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| Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. Harry S Truman Quotes |
| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea Aristotle Quotes |
| Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. Ayn Rand Quotes |
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| Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. Gary Ryan Blair Quotes |
| There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than The Others. Martha Graham Quotes |
| A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. Ayn Rand Quotes |
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| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart Quotes |
| There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action William Somerset Maugham Quotes |
| True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. David Ridge Quotes |
| Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Seneca Quotes |
| When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Effective action is always unjust. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Doubt can only be removed by action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Act quickly, think slowly. Greek proverb Quotes |
| For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Ingrid Bengis Quotes |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. Peter McWilliams Quotes |
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| The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Plato Quotes |
| Action expresses priorities. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. Mark Yost Quotes |
| In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Zig Ziglar Quotes |
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| The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action Madame de Stael Quotes |
| I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. Anais Nin Quotes |
| Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert Quotes |
| Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
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| The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Confucius Quotes |
| Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel, George MacDonald Quotes |
| Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter F. Drucker Quotes |
| You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort Ayn Rand Quotes |
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| Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
| Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? Jon Stewart Quotes |
| As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. John Maxwell Quotes |
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| This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. Buddha Quotes |
| Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. Albert Bandura Quotes |
| Actions speak louder than words American Proverb Quotes |
| Actions lie louder than words. Carolyn Wells Quotes |
| Actions are visible, though motives are secret Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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| Speech is the image of actions Solon Quotes |
| May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| As we become full persons, our knack for "right actions" and good judgment blossoms Marsha Sinetar Quotes |
| Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity (1 John 3:18). Bible Quotes |
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| Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. Henry Miller Quotes |
| No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. Amelia Earhart Quotes |
| In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls Angela Merici Quotes |
| Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open. Atharva Veda Quotes |
| I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
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| You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. Demosthenes Quotes |
| The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini Quotes |
| A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude. . . . Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Aristotle Quotes |
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| To live is not breathing it is action. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
| Honest hearts produce honest actions. Brigham Young Quotes |
| It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it Charlotte Bronte Quotes |
| The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes |
| Your actions will follow you full circle around. Indigo Girls Quotes |
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| I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred! Richard Chamberlain Quotes |
| Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it? J. D. Salinger Quotes |
| Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. Ninon de Lenclos Quotes |
| Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book. Martin Luther Quotes |
| When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. Luigi Pirandello Quotes |
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| What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.My intent will be evident in the results. Thurgood Marshall Quotes |
| Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. Akhenaton Quotes |
| The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed William Wordsworth Quotes |
| The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion Henry George Quotes |
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| Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all Robert M. Pirsig Quotes |
| Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm Jean Paul Richter Quotes |
| The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. Publius Cornelius Tacitus Quotes |
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| Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. Aristotle Quotes |
| Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. Akhenaton Quotes |
| I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
| Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon Quotes |
| Thoughts are the seed of action. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. Maxwell Maltz Quotes |
| Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Anais Nin Quotes |
| Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood Muhammad Quotes |
| Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. Walt Disney Quotes |
| Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing Alexander Pope Quotes |
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| Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler Quotes |
| A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself Arthur William Radford Quotes |
| Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being. William Bernbach Quotes |
| We must be doing something to be happy. William Hazlitt Quotes |
| The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it Sophia Loren Quotes |
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| A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. Og Mandino Quotes |
| Only actions performed with perseverance can ensure success. Yajur Veda Quotes |
| Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. W. Edwards Deming Quotes |
| The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert Quotes |
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| It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as "industrial action", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as "sleeping together" John Copeland Quotes |
| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. John Dewey Quotes |
| The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Quotes |
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| It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility Joseph Conrad Quotes |
| Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Bergen Evans Quotes |
| 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 thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without the anticipation of the resultma sangostu akramani--without succumbing to inaction) Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
| Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
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| Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes |
| Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good. James Hamilton Quotes |
| One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
| I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting "no." Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos John Dewey Quotes |
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| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold H. Glasgow Quotes |
| Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
| In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. Sallust Quotes |
| Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Sean O'Casey Quotes |
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| Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb Quotes |
| The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. John Hancock Quotes |
| The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke Quotes |
| The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, Marshall McLuhan Quotes |
| Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. Alexander Pope Quotes |
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| In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you." Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| Action makes more Fortune than caution Vauvenargues Marquis de Quotes |
| My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome Quotes |
| It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. Stanley Milgram Quotes |
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| The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything. Swami Vivekananda Quotes |
| A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant Quotes |
| Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
| The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny. Ming Fu Wu Quotes |
| If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one. Carter G. Woodson Quotes |
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| The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Diane Arbus Quotes |
| Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes |
| Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson Quotes |
| A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes |
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| Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus Quotes |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle Quotes |
| Justice is truth in action. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? Arthur Miller Quotes |
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| Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. William Osler Quotes |
| Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory William Wordsworth Quotes |
| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates Quotes |
| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington Quotes |
| Dreams have as much influence as actions Stephane Mallarme Quotes |
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| Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
| Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. Kwame Nkrumah Quotes |
| Sir, I say that justice is truth in action Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. W. H. Auden Quotes |
| Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Barbara Bush Quotes |
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| Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Thomas Paine Quotes |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle Quotes |
| Pre-emptive action today may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future because -- and I have ordered this kind of action -- I don't care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people die. Bill Clinton Quotes |
| With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night. Charles Dickens Quotes |
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| If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. George W. Bush Quotes |
| The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller Quotes |
| As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Avram Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Dale Evans Rogers Quotes |
| At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. Wynn Bullock Quotes |
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| One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum Sir Walter Scott Quotes |
| For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect. Grace Speare Quotes |
| We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes |
| If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. Martha Graham Quotes |
| What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action Meister Eckhart Quotes |
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| Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. Luigi Pirandello Quotes |
| Morale is self-esteem in action Avery Weisman Quotes |
| Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. Camille Paglia Quotes |
| Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. Sidney Madwed Quotes |
| We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become. Grace Speare Quotes |
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| People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. Martin Luther Quotes |
| Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which |
