Action Quotes

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We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the… — Unknown Author
It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive. — Unknown Author
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or… — Henri Frederic Amiel
What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words… — Thurgood Marshall
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There… — Henry David Thoreau
I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting no. — Ronald Reagan
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without… — Luis BuÃ±uel
Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went… — James Hamilton
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of… — Theodore Roosevelt
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at… — William Wordsworth
The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly — Bhagavad Gita
Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity (1 John 3:18). — Bible
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having… — Henry David Thoreau
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so… — Rabindranath Tagore
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. — Japanese Proverb
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them — Francois La Rochefoucauld
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a… — Jean De La Fontaine
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. — Aristotle

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