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  • Richard M. DeVos The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz 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)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Gail Sheehy 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.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Henry Giles 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.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Traherne 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.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Donald Curtis The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.
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  • Confucius The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thornton Wilder 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.''
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carl Sandburg The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill 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.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Peter Mcwilliams The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
    Peter Mcwilliams
    American self-help author (1949 - 2000)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Paul De Man 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.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • T. S. Eliot The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ben Rattray 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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