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Action Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Nothing will work unless you do.
- Life loves the liver of it.
- Effective action is always unjust.
- When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,…
- Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
- When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from…
- When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,…
- Sometimes the people whom we've know for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- 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