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• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Truth, Taken

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Mind, Capacity

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• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Political

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

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• Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

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• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Progress, Development

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• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Mark

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• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

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• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Life, Motivational, Writing

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.50, Bantam

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• Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

  William James

  Life, Success, Everyday

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Men, Done

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Race, Self, Our Actions

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• Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Strong, Mean, Pride

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• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hours, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

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• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

  David Viscott

  Believe, People, Criminal Mind

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Past, Wish

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Decision, Acting

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

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• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

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• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

  Horace Mann

  Courage, Character, Thinking

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.199

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• A good example is the best sermon.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Example

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

  William Halsey

  Motivational, Success, Dodge

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• Intention without action is useless.

  Caroline Myss

  Useless, Intention

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another

  Michel de Montaigne

  One Thing

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.541, Stanford University Press

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