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222 quotesSeldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Sympathy
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Thoughts and Thinking
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
Action
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Fools and Foolishness
Oliver Goldsmith
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The beginning is the half of every action.
Beginning
Greek Proverb
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Information
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Action
Dag Hammarskjold
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
Passion
Claude A. Helvetius
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Poverty and The Poor
Don Herold
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Action
Napoleon Hill
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Action
Eric Hoffer
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Ideals and Idealism
Herbert Clark Hoover
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Fear
Doug Horton
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Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Dissatisfaction
Doug Horton
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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Materialism
Doug Horton
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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Doug Horton
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Argument
Edgar Watson Howe
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Taste
Victor Hugo
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All men of action are dreamers.
Dreams
James G. Huneker
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
Responsibility
H. L. Hunt
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Action
Francis Hutcheson
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Action
Thomas H. Huxley
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Goodness
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Strategies
Andrew Jackson
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I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm forty-five.
Song and Singing
Mick Jagger
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun