"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on Action
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"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action."

Plutarch on Action
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"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Action
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

Barker, Joel A. on Vision
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"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

Aristotle on Action
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"Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal"

Unknown, Source on Planning
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"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."

Fichte, Johann G. on Action
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"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."

Horton, Doug on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Action
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"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."

Proverb, Japanese on Vision
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"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action."

Hanson, Michael on Goals
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

Edwards, Tryon on Forgiveness
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

James, William on Action
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

Levin, James on Action
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"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on Action
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"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."

Wattles, Wallace D. on Action
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"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action."

Quarles, Francis on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope."

Levi, Peter on Action
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

Miller, Henry on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on Pleasure
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Wordsworth, William on Action
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"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

Clemenceau, Georges on Action
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"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. "

Clemenceau, Georges on Uncategorised
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on Goodness
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Edwards, Tryon on Destiny
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"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

Cooley, Charles Horton on Action
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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank on Action
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"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."

Robbins, Anthony on Action
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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

Hoffer, Eric on Action
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"Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature."

Shakespeare, William on Action
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?"

Montapert, Alfred A. on Results
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"It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state."

Ching Ning Chu on Action
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"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Action
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"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all."

Bernanos, Georges on Thoughts and Thinking
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"There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action."

Casson, Herbert N. on Success
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"A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe."

Clemenceau, Georges on Action
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"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."

Skelton, Red on Principles
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"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people."

Selden, John on Weddings
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"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

Hoffer, Eric on Action
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"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

Unknown, Source on Character
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