Quotes with action-adventure

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  • Conrad Hilton Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
    Conrad Hilton
    American businessman and founder of the Hilton hotels (1887 - 1979)
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  • William Shakespeare 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
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Les Brown Take action in order to move toward your goals.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Napoleon Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Andrew Jackson Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billie Jean King Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Cecil J. Sharpe The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The ancestor of every action is thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Oprah Winfrey The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon 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.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ezra Pound 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.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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