Quotes with action-oriented

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  • George Washington Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Beck Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Aristotle Happiness is a sort of action.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Augustus William Hare Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Barbara Olson Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Lee I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
    Renegade for Peace and Justice
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Fidel Castro I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Tennessee Williams I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Action Bronson I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
    Action Bronson
    American rapper (1983 - )
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