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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Sir Thomas Aquinas

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

Communities that insist on clinging to traditional, extraction-based economies are asking for stagnation.
Thomas Power

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.
Sir Martin Rees

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought
Dinah Maria Mulock

We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
George Wald

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo

Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
James Lovelock

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
Philip Massinger

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover

It wasn't the reaction I was expecting. I thought a couple of things might have landed on my head
Dennis Wise

' I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees... putting on make-up when you're up there!'
Eddie Izzard

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Tom Wolfe

The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned
Robert Brault

My initial reaction is that I do not believe it is true. But the integrity of the sport is bigger than anyone playing it and if someone undermines the integrity of a sport then I find that offensive. (on Rusedski's drug trial)
Andrew Castle

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Lord John Russell

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty
Giuseppe Mazzini

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.
George Jackson

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
Tony Conrad

Don't just work
for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.
Kathy Ireland

It was frustrating as I prefer face-to-face action [on missing boyfriend Any Scott-Lee whilst on a TV show]
Michelle Heaton

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
Jaroslav Pelikan

All adventure is now reactionary.
William F Buckley Jr

At that moment I hated Gordon Banks more than any man in soccer. [on Pele's reaction to his save]
Simon Kuper

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams

Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boasting
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The path of weakness and inaction [describing John Kerry]
George W Bush

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart

[He should] Consider his position... the question is of the use or misuse of public resources [recommending a course of action for David Blunkett]
Theresa May

Uefa should take as strong action as it is allowed to do.
Mark Hughes

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories.
Chow Yun-Fat

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E Stevenson

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert Blair

However resplendent an action may be, it should not be accounted great unless it is the result of a great design
Duc De La Rochefoucauld



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