Quotes on action
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
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Stephane Mallarme 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.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Carl Weick Quotes
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
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William Bolitho Quotes
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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James Baldwin Quotes
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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Herbert Hoover Quotes
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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Harold Nicolson Quotes
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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Vaclav Havel Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
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Helen Gahagan Douglas Quotes
On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
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Bhagavad Gita Quotes
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Unknown Author Quotes
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
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Arthur W. Radford Quotes
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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Joseph Conrad Quotes
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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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.
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Maria Edgeworth Quotes
The shortest answer is doing.
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George Herbert Quotes
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Nicholas de Chamfort Quotes
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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Peter Marshall Quotes
Men expect too much, do too little.
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Allen Tate Quotes
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
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Walter Anderson Quotes
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Vance Havner Quotes
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Sophocles Quotes
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
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Jonatan Mårtensson Quotes
Action is the foundational key to all success.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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Alfred Adler Quotes
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes
One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.
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Rodney Dangerfield Quotes
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.
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Bhagavad Gita Quotes
The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes
Action is the antidote to despair.
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Joan Baez Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Colin Powell Quotes
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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John Locke Quotes
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.
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Author Unknown 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.
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All know the way; few actually walk it.
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Bodhidharma Quotes
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
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Lewis Cass Quotes
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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Brendan Francis Quotes
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
Talk doesn't cook rice.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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Anthony Robbins Quotes
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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