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Action Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
- Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius