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Action Quotes - Page 74

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2823, e-artnow

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Sheba Blake Publishing

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1208, Vintage

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.145

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

"EU sets targets of 40% carbon cut and 27% share of renewables by 2030". Live, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2014.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin