Quotes with action-oriented

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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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  • Barry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • John Jay Chapman The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Charles Lamb The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Raymond Holliwell The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mack R. Douglas The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Camus The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Robbins The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Francis Bacon The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The purpose of man is in action not thought.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Nelson Mandela 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)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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