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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
[ Words ]
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams books
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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
[ Action ]
Loius A. Allen
Loius A. Allen books
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72 votes
You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.
[ Responsibility ]
R. C. Allen
R. C. Allen books
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76 votes
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
[ Action ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel books
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67 votes
Effective action is always unjust.
[ Action ]
Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh books
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69 votes
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
[ Action ]
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt books
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78 votes
A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.
[ Planning ]
John Argenti
John Argenti books
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81 votes
Happiness is a sort of action.
[ Happiness ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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67 votes
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden books
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74 votes
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
[ Action ]
Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach books
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70 votes
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
[ Reserve ]
Jane Austen
Jane Austen books
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86 votes
Action is the antidote to despair.
[ Despair ]
Joan Baez
Joan Baez books
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35 votes
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
[ Action ]
Honore De Balzac
Honore De Balzac books
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63 votes
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
[ Action ]
Al Batt
Al Batt books
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55 votes
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard books
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59 votes
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
[ Influence ]
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher books
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75 votes
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham books
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44 votes
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
[ Action ]
Henri L. Bergson
Henri L. Bergson books
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54 votes
Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
[ Reactionaries ]
Aneurin Bevan
Aneurin Bevan books
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50 votes
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
[ Action ]
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita books
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67 votes
Action should culminate in wisdom.
[ Wisdom ]
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita books
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47 votes
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
[ Misfortunes ]
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce books
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49 votes
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
[ Action ]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer books
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49 votes
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
[ Ideas ]
Christian Nevell Bovee
Christian Nevell Bovee books
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61 votes
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
[ Memory ]
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell books
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48 votes
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
[ Media ]
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht books
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60 votes
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
[ Patience ]
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown books
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43 votes
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
[ Goals ]
Les Brown
Les Brown books
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44 votes
Take action in order to move toward your goals.
[ Action ]
Les Brown
Les Brown books
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38 votes
You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
[ Attitude ]
Dr. Jerome Brunner
Dr. Jerome Brunner books
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61 votes
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
[ Action ]
Jean De La Bruyere
Jean De La Bruyere books
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51 votes
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
[ Arts and Artists ]
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess books
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42 votes
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
[ Action ]
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Calderon de la Barca books
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49 votes
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
[ Life, Lust For ]
Albert Camus
Albert Camus books
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49 votes
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
[ Doubt ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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42 votes
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
[ Action ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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49 votes
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
[ Advice ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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48 votes
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
[ Action ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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35 votes
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
[ Purpose ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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41 votes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
[ Action ]
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes books
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45 votes
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
[ Action ]
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbel Chapin books
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39 votes
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
[ Action ]
Rene Char
Rene Char books
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52 votes
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
[ Action ]
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill books
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38 votes
Action makes more fortune than caution.
[ Action ]
Luc De Clapiers
Luc De Clapiers books
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39 votes
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
[ Action ]
James Freeman Clarke
James Freeman Clarke books
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42 votes
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
[ Luck ]
George S. Clason
George S. Clason books
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44 votes
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
[ Reactionaries ]
Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood books
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41 votes
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
[ Conflict ]
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton books
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40 votes
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
[ Action ]
Confucius
Confucius books
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43 votes
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
[ Action ]
Confucius
Confucius books
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48 votes