Action Quotes
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Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That's my ideal fight.
Tyson Fury
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Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
R. A. Salvatore
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Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Margaret Heffernan
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Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
Bertrand Russell
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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
Richie Benaud
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When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Richard Savage
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A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Plutarch
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.
Victor Hugo
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
Genghis Khan
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
Confucius
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Be slow in considering, but resolute in action.
Bias of Priene
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Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.
Alicia Garza
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.
Chris Pine
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
Stephen Covey
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Vladimir Lenin
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
William Graham Sumner
