"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

Action, Actions, Effort, Ridicule

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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

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"If you are indecisive, make decisions quickly and act in accordance with your decisions you will be able to acquire a new habit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a plan of how to deal with the difficult task with a single bite at each time. Go slow, but sure!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Action is character."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Effectiveness of love must be measured by concrete results."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Action, Love, Effectiveness, Results

"Enough talk, now read!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Action, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."

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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

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"Desire is the very essence of man."

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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."

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"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

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"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."

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