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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 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 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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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