Action

(598 votes)   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
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(505 votes)   There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(479 votes)   But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(469 votes)   Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(463 votes)   Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(455 votes)   We must get beyond debates about the merits of affirmative action and begin to act in the affirmative

Gary Holder-Winfield

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(441 votes)   For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(435 votes)   Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(417 votes)   Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(389 votes)   The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Louis A. Allen

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(370 votes)   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
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(306 votes)   A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

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(298 votes)   I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(285 votes)   Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

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(274 votes)   In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams
1807-1886, American Statesman, Diplomat

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