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Action Quotes
"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
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"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848."
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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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"Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward."
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
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"In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor."
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"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
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"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
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"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression."
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"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."
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"Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action."
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"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
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"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
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"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action."
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"Take one more step because it might be the last one needed."
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
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"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
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"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here."
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"Strong convictions precede great actions."
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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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"We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing."
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"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut."
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