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Action

«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»
«Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.»
«What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.My intent will be evident in the results.»
«Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it»
«We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.»
«What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action»
Author: Wendell Phillips (Abolitionist, Orator) | About: Action, Thinking | Keywords: Puritans
«What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.»
«Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it»
«Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.»
«What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!»