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Action Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of…
- There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will…
- It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
- The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
- It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit…
- Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
- What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — 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