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Action

«Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.»
«That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers»
Author: Francis Hutcheson | About: Action, Happiness | Keywords: procures
«There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing»
Author: George MacDonald | About: Action | Keywords: for one, Thousands
«There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction»
«Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.»
«There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action»
«There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.»
«The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, ?Where is he at?? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing??Carry a message to Garcia!?»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Action
«?the doer? is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.»
«That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Action | Keywords: dispute, party