Quotes with actions

Quotes 121 till 140 of 191.

  • Anita Hill Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • John Locke The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Sir Francis Drake The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Walt Whitman The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • André Gide The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Red Auerbach The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ayn Rand There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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