Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten
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The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
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Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results
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There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
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We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating ourselves at the intersection of several stories not yet completed.
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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Successful action tends to become an end in itself
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Act quickly, think slowly.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy
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