| "As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson |
| "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." »Henri Bergson |
| "Vision without action is merely a dream. action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker |
| "Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector |
| "The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen |
| "We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." »Joaquin Setanti |
| "Get action. Seize the moment. man was never intended to become an oyster." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe." »Abigail Adams |
| "Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad |
| "The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him." »Plutarch |
| "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| "What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god" »William Shakespeare |
| "A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning." »Leo Braeck |
| "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." »Eric Hoffer |
| "One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "Vision without action is a daydream. action with without vision is a nightmare." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Vision without action is a daydream. action without vision is a nightmare." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." »William Shakespeare |
| "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." »Frank Tibolt |
| "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." »Mark Twain |
| "On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction." »Bhagavad Gita |
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