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In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...

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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...

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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

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Maxwell MaltzThe New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

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Mitch AlbomHave a Little Faith: a True Story

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all tho...

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God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you...

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TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who ...

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Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined ...

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Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State B...

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For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was b...

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dre...

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...

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Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The book...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...

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Otto WeiningerSex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are crimina...

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Otto WeiningerSex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

Action is the foundational key to all success.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate...

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Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

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To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not...

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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough ...

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Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true ...

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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The yout...

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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...

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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up...

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Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would b...

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In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do...

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In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just ...

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Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...

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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden...

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All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life an...

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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are...

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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Nev...

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I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"He snorted. "You're right, the only deliv...

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The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

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Susan SontagRegarding the Pain of Others

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour.""Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you...

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May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be re...

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I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

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Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. C...

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I learn by going where I have to go.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

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My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the ha...

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Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.