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You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince you...

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You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has...

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Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousa...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not...

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the word...

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and ac...

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are o...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainmen...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo t...

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Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduc...

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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is th...

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is the...

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interest...

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Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results...

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

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The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for ...

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He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. He who do...

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He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us an...

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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, ...

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But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d...

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their mos...

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Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

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We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the dr...

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There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ours...

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It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the th...

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He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't b...

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of...

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The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and...

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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes...

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Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we ha...

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Belief means nothing without actions

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is...

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Randolph BourneThe Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

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SophoclesThe Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions ha...

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Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in s...

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Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge

Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...

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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...

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The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionaliti...

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

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William Kingdon CliffordThe Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

My dad was good with actions.

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions."

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very...

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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on t...

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, ...

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Anaïs NinA Spy in the House of Love

The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I’m not only speaking o...

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Ann LeckieAncillary Justice

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact ...

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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be ...

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into considerati...

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because ...

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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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

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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone us...

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In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ...

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Blaise PascalThe Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

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Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twic...

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ConfuciusThe Analects

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advic...

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ConfuciusThe Analects

Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you t...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity