Action Quotes - Page 12

• There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

  Moliere

  Heart, Secret, Our Actions

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• The act of God injures no one.

  Juvenal

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• Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Obscure, Concrete, Unconscious

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

  Jean Anouilh

  Magic, Mind, Genius

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• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  Sai Baba

  Matter, Results

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• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

  Philip James Bailey

  Life, Gratitude, Heart

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.80

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• Goals help you channel your energy into action.

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Inspirational Life, Goal

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• Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

  David Letterman

  Motivational, Reality, Focus

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• As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Cases

  "The Portable Abraham Lincoln".

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  Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Night, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  Lydia Lunch

  Eye, Thinking, Lunch

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Names, People, Lazy

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• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Accountability, Individual, Interest

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

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• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

  Henry Miller

  Philosophy, Facts, Mystery

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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  The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

  Ross Perot

  Dirty, Men, Rivers

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• The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Health, Destiny

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• To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

  Hugh Prather

  Frustration, Mindfulness, Would Be

  Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

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• A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Witty, Goal

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Men, Mercy

  Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw (1999). “Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva”, p.253, Penguin UK

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• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Years, Rely Upon

  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2

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