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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable.
Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion,
and desire.
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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.
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Carolyn Wells
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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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.
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An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
Action is character.
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be
distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.
In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929), Conversation with Jean Martet, January 1 1929
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let
someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
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Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make
the better.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of
action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of
wearing out than rusting out.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City,
October 5, 1898
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to George Washington, May 16, 1792