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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action. Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. 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. Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action. Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action. Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden? It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. 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. A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe. Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people. One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny. The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. 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. Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself there from. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. 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. Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. 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. Action is the antidote to despair. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Doubt can only be removed by action. All men of action are dreamers. The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. Action conquers fear. Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. Goals help you channel your energy into action. The only cure for grief is action. Happiness is a sort of action. Honest hearts produce honest actions. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. A man is not good or bad for one action.
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