Quotes 361 till 380 of 508.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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The purpose of studying history is not to deride human action, nor to weep over it or to hate it, but to understand it. And hopefully then to learn from it as we contemplate our future.
Renewal and Renaissance - Towards A New World Order (1997) -
The role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
On War (1832) -
The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
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