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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Retirement
Malcolm Muggeridge

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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Honesty
Richard J. Needham

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Action
Jawaharlal Nehru

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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Action
Jawaharlal Nehru

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Extremes and Extremists
Reinhold Niebuhr

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Kwame Nkrumah

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Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
Moderation
Jean Paul

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Satisfaction
Linus Pauling

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Good managers have a bias for action.
Management
Thomas J. Peters

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Puritans
Wendell Phillips

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Plato

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Responsibility
John Enoch Powell

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
Thoughts and Thinking
Francis Quarles

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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Genius
Man Ray

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Action
Jean Paul Richter

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Action
Pat Riley

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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Action
Anthony Robbins

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Personal power is the ability to take action.
Power
Anthony Robbins

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Success
Anthony Robbins

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Reactionaries
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Action
Theodore Roosevelt

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To live is not breathing it is action.
Life and Living
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Thoughts and Thinking
Salman Rushdie

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Action
Carl Sandburg

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Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Force
Saying

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun