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Action

«Never mistake motion for action.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Action | Keywords: mistake, motion
«Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.»
«Nothing will work unless you do.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Action
«Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . . . if you know these things about a man you can touch him at the core of his being.»
«Never confuse motion with action.»
«Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Action, Kindness
«My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.»
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
«No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated»
Author: Seneca | About: Action | Keywords: blameless, dictated
«My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.»