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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle
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We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. -Aristotle
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Sallust
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Alfred North Whitehead
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. -Leonardo da Vinci
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
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Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per.

Bill Clinton
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. -Amelia Earhart
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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S Truman
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A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy
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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. -Jean Paul Richter
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope
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One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Jean de La Fontaine
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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. -Barbara Bush
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No cause of action arises from a bare promise.

Legal Maxim
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Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction (The translation follows thusKarmani ave adhikars te--you have the power to act onlyma phalesu kadachana--you do not have the power to influence the resultma karmaphal hetur bhoo--therefore you must act without t.

Bhagavad Gita
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Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good. -John Chancellor
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Karen Horney
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Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells
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The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

Mae West
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It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good. -Greek Proverb
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day
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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Henry Anatole Grunwald
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I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. -Jerry Garcia
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Act honestly, and answer boldly.

Danish Proverb
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

George Chapman
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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. -Thomas Brooks
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