quotations about action
In this country ... men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
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diary, Apr. 15, 1836
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT
Encyclopedia Indica
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Your actions are like a beacon of light that other staff can aspire to follow and depend upon for guidance.
MAHMUD MOHAMMED
"Nigeria: Budget Constraint Crippling the Judiciary, Says CJN", All Africa, September 6, 2016
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It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, June 1, 1880
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The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Patrick Henry, Jan. 15, 1799
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So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
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How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.
D. WILLIAMS
"Action", The National Magazine, Dec. 1854
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Action is character.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Notes for The Last Tycoon
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Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
attributed, Papa Hemingway
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
EMIL CIORAN
History & Utopia
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Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
A Perfect Spy
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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
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We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
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As a man believes, so he will act.
SAM HARRIS
The End of Faith
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Action is eloquence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus
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A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
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Make your actions deliberate, not rushed and random.
STATE JOURNAL STAFF
"Leap Day offers extra time to focus on 'big-picture' -- use it wisely", The State Journal, February 29, 2016
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
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Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
HANNAH ARENDT
The Human Condition
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An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
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