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«A life which does not go into action is a failure»
Author: Arnold Toynbee (Historian) | About: Action, Life | Keywords: go into
«A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.»
Author: George Clemenceau | About: Action | Keywords: act as, breathe
«A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it»
Author: John Galsworthy (Novelist, Playwright) | About: Action, Men | Keywords: forced, get out
«A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions»
Author: Thomas Brooks | About: Action
«A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | About: Action | Keywords: Book of, creed, picture book
«A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others»
Author: Charles Darwin (Author, Naturalist) | About: Action | Keywords: approving, disapproves, disapproving, motives, reflecting
«A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | About: Action, Thinking, Truth | Keywords: disinterested, enslave, extraordinarily, inconvenienced, liking, lively, persistent, troubled
«A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.»
Author: Rita Mae Brown (Writer) | About: Action, Life | Keywords: intellectually, reaction, spiritually
«A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it»
Author: George Washington (President) | About: Acquaintance, Action, Friendship | Keywords: acquaintance, convince, criterion, good will, Marks, professions, slender, surest
«A man is not good or bad for one action»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Action, Men
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