Quotes with action

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Doug Horton Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Tryon Edwards Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Dryden Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Myriam Miedzian To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Scott Reed To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To live is not breathing it is action.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Alan Cohen True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • David Seabury Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Adam Schiff Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • George Gilder Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
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  • Bhagavad Gita Unreal is action without discipline, charity without sympathy, ritual without devotion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Charles J. Givens Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • William Shakespeare Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / and vice sometimes by action dignified.
    Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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