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Action Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or…
- When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
- We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human…
- I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
- I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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