quotations about action
The consequences of your actions aren't always clear until much later, and realizing you screwed up when it's already too late can hit hard.
ANDREW WEBSTER
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"Life is Strange is my favorite TV show of the year -- except it's a video game", The Verge, October 28, 2015
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
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The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing--if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.
HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE
God and Man: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire
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There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
ANDRE MAUROIS
An Art of Living
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The bridge of life is built on the scaffold of action, but rests finally on the piers of results.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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When people believe you generally have their best interests at heart, you get the benefit of the doubt, and your actions are interpreted more generously.
HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON
"Signs You Might Be a Toxic Colleague", Harvard Business Review, March 2, 2016
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Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
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Every act is an expression of one's self.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Musashi
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Actions are destiny's pen.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
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Let us do or die.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Island Princess
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, Sep. 19, 1938
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Action is character.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Notes for The Last Tycoon
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
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When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
Jean-Christophe
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In this country ... men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
diary, Apr. 15, 1836
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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT
Encyclopedia Indica
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So on autopilot are you that your actions are only half conscious at best.
SETH ODELL
"Dip to White: Breaking Through with TV Spots", Inside Higher Ed, September 1, 2016
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Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
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