Action Quotes
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If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.
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She’d once heard that when you have heart surgery—your chest sawed open, your ribs cracked, the action of your heart replaced for hours by the action of a machine—the suffering you undergo for the next few months, that peculiarly spiritual sorrow, is the sorrow of a body in mourning for itself, a body that believes it has died.
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The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
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Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.
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Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
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Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) action, we should be clear that U.S. troops on the ground cannot go a million miles near a sectarian civil war-it's simply not an option.
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As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions.
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I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
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What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
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Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
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I think what you can see is this is a president of action. I mean Donald Trump is not one that's going to sit there and talk for too long. If he thinks someone is wrong, he's going to deal with it.
