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Action Quotes - Page 89

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Action always beats inaction.

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 04, 2010

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.101, Macmillan

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.10, Penguin

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

"Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

Knowledge must come through action.

The Plays of Sophocles Trachiniae l. 589

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.150, Routledge

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.11, Vintage

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.286, Classic Books Company

Manners are the ornament of action.

Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323