{"id":112,"date":"2016-05-12T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:17:49","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Action_437_Quotations_13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=112","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Action (437 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.<\/div>\n
Heinrich Heine<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Aristotle<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.<\/div>\n
Ovid<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.<\/div>\n
Honore De Balzac<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.<\/div>\n
Clarence Buddinton Kelland<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never confuse motion with action.<\/div>\n
Ernest Hemingway<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.<\/div>\n
Annie Besant<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.<\/div>\n
William J. Durant<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.<\/div>\n
Elmer G. Letterman<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No one will do it for you.<\/div>\n
Ben Stein<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No rules for success will work if you don't.<\/div>\n
Anonymous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No sooner said than done — so acts your man of worth.<\/div>\n
Quintus Ennius<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.<\/div>\n
Harry Emerson Fosdick<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.<\/div>\n
Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.<\/div>\n
Anonymous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.<\/div>\n
Carl Rowan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.<\/div>\n
Leonidas of Tarentum<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 241 to 260 of 437<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< Previous<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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