Action

(150 votes)   'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(307 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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(68 votes)   A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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(60 votes)   A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Pedro Calder=n de la Barca
1600-1681, Spanish Playwright

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(65 votes)   A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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(88 votes)   A well begun is half ended.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(134 votes)   Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Immanuel Kant
1724-1804, German Philosopher

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(91 votes)   Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(60 votes)   Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Joe Paterno
American Football Coach - Penn State

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(116 votes)   Act quickly, think slowly.

Greek Proverbs
Sayings of Greek Origin

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(105 votes)   Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(52 votes)   Act, don't react!

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(89 votes)   Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(436 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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(81 votes)   Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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