Quotes with action

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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.
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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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