Action Quotes

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Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you… — L. Frank Baum
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.… — Jefferson Davis
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and… — Fernando Pessoa
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. — Fernando Pessoa
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them… — Unknown Author
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… — Alan Lightman
There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action… — Nelson Mandela
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's… — John Dryden
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with… — Robert Burns
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. — Isaac Asimov
Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently.… — Phil McGraw
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. — Henry Chester
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy… — Thomas Huxley
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald
Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet… — Unknown Author
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.… — Mortimer Adler
Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who… — Wangari Maathai
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with… — Unknown Author

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