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From small beginnings come great things.
-Proverb
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Some will, some don't, so what!
-Proverb
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
-Proverb
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Try and trust will move mountains.
-Proverb
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
-Proverb
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Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them
The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.
-Bible
Matthew 7:12 (KJV)
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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
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
-Leo Aikman
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What keeps me going is goals.
-Muhammad Ali
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-Noelie Alito
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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
-Loius A. Allen
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
-Maya Angelou
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Effective action is always unjust.
-Jean Anouilh
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
-John Anster
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
-Thomas Aquinas
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
-Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
-Hannah Arendt
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
-Aristotle
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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
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
-Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
-Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
-Aristotle
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Books about Action(s)
