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  • Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
  • What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
  • 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.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
  • I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
  • As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  • In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
  • I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
  • In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
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  • William Shakespeare Action is eloquence.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Action should culminate in wisdom.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Vaclav Havel A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Action expresses priorities.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Doubt can only be removed by action.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • W. Clement Stone I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
    Horace Bushnell
     
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Paul J. Meyer A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Ayn Rand A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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