Action Quotes

• "He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety."
  By: Latin Quotations
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• "Gentle in method, resolute in action."
  By: Latin Quotations
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• "However resplendent an action may be, it should not be accounted great unless it is the result of a great design. [Fr., Quelque eclatente que soit une action, elle ne doit pas passer pour grande, lorqeu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand essein.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (160)
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• "We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Our actions are like the terminations of verses; which we rhyme as we please."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "The act of God injures no one."
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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• "Living requires but little life; doing requires much."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson
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• "That action which appears most conducive to the happiness of and virtue of mankind."
  By: Francis Hutcheson, the Elder, A System of Moral Philosophy--The General Notions of Rights, Law Expl. (bk. II, ch. III)
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• "Our acts make or mar us,--we the children of our own deeds."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing--"carry a message to Garcia.""
  By: Elbert Hubbard, Carry a Message to Garcia--Philistine
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