“ I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. ”
- Alice Koller- Copy
- 1.8K
“ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 542
“ Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1K
“ Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 841
“ You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ”
- Demosthenes- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. ”
- Dorothy Day- Copy
- 685
“ An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.7K
“ You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 981
“ When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. ”
- Harvey Cox- Copy
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“ Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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