Action Quotes
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One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
Northrop Frye
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.
Christine Caine
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.
Alexandre Kojeve
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Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.
William Mountford
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
Scilla Elworthy
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I will be monitoring the situation closely and, if I am not satisfied that sufficient progress is being made, I will take tougher action,"
Charlie McCreevy
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With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.
William S. Burroughs
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To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
Steve Jobs
