quotations about action
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
ANDRE GIDE
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Journals
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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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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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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
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Actions are destiny's pen.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
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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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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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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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When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
Jean-Christophe
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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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Let us do or die.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Island Princess
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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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Every act is an expression of one's self.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Musashi
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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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Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.
D. WILLIAMS
"Action", The National Magazine, Dec. 1854
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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
MARY MCCARTHY
My Confession
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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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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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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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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT
Encyclopedia Indica
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