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Action Quotes - Page 39

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.198

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1796). “The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks”, p.20

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

"Noam Chomsky slams Canada's shale gas energy plans" by Martin Lukacs, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2013.