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Action

«Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.»
«You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.»
Author: Barbara Hall | About: Action, Life
«Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.»
«Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Action | Keywords: action, Actions, alone, determines, worth
«Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.»
«While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.»
«Words divide us, actions unite us.»
Author: Tupamoros | About: Action, Words | Keywords: Actions, divide, unite
«Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?»
Author: J. D. Salinger (Novelist, Writer) | About: Action
«Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning»
«Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words»