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Action Quotes - Page 75

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.187

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.36, Penguin

It's not enough to be busy.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.71, Random House

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.441, Northwestern University Press

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

"Transcript: President Bush‘s Fort Bragg speech". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2005.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.

Every intention sets energy into motion Whether you are conscious of it or not.

Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.108, Simon and Schuster