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Action
may not always
bring happiness;
but there is no happiness
without action.
Benjamin
Disraeli
(this quotation is also
attributed to William James)
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There is a tendency among many shallow
thinkers of our day to teach
that every human act is a reflex, over which
we do not exercise human
control. They would rate a generous deed as no more
praiseworthy
than a wink, a crime
as
no more voluntary than a sneeze. . .
Such a
philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . .
All of us have the power
of
choice in action at every moment of our lives.
Fulton J. Sheen
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We
should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a
thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration
seldom generates action.
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It's
the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do
the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time,
that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right
thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you
do nothing, there will be no result.
Mohandas Gandhi
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Whatever we learn to
do, we learn by actually doing it; we come to be
builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by
playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we
come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to
be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become
brave.
Aristotle
Even if you're on the
right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers |
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
Mitch Albom
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We think the pleasure of life is in receiving sensations—a most . . .
limited idea. The main pleasures of life come through expression
rather than impression. It is more pleasant to paint a picture than
to look at it,—to sing than to hear singing. Supplied with every
conceivable means of gratification, a human being soon exhausts
the pleasure of having things, but given right avenues to employ
his or her energies, never exhausts the pleasure of doing things.
The receiving power of an organism is not so great as its giving
power. Expression is greater than impression. We fondly imagine
that it is better to have things than do them,— an error carried to its
natural height when acting under this mistake we seek to avoid
work and look down upon the worker.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Many people
are good at talking about what they are doing, but
in fact
do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it;
they are
the ones who make a community live.
Jean Vanier
Community and Growth
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The best portion of a good
person's
life,--
Their little nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for
responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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All life is a chance. So take it!
The
person who goes
the furthest
is the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Having the world's best
idea will do you no good unless you act on it.
People who want milk
shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle
of a field in hopes that a cow will
back up to them.
Curtis Grant
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What
makes the difference between wishing and realizing our
wishes? Lots of things, of course, but the main one, I think, is
whether we link our wishes to our active work. It may take
months or years, but it's far more likely to happen when we care
so much that we'll work as hard as we can to make it happen.
And when we're working toward the realization of our wishes,
some of our greatest strengths come from the
encouragement of people who care about us.
Fred Rogers
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One must learn by doing the
thing; though you think
you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
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I
got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and
made some
marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers
one up to shred oranges and
scrub the floor.
D.H.
Lawrence
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Deliberation
is the work of many people.
Action, of one alone.
Charles
de Gaulle
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The way of
the sage is to act
but not to compete.
Lao-Tzu |
I will not steep my speech in
lies;
the test of any person lies in action.
Pindar
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Action
is itself neither virtuous nor sinful. The error lies in attributing
it to our false individuality, when really it emanates from God. So no
action is to be discarded. All actions are to be surrendered to him.
Papa Ramdas
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Activity
is better than inertia. Act, but with self-control. . . .
The
world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when
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all necessary acts, for action is better than inaction;
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Every moral act of love, of
mercy, and of sacrifice brings
to pass the end of the world where hatred,
cruelty,
and selfishness reign supreme.
Nicholas
Berdyaev
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I will
act as if I do make a difference.
William
James
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If we do
not change our daily lives,
we cannot change the world.
Thich
Nhat Hanh
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I do the very best I know how--the
very best I can; and I mean
to keep
doing so until the end. If the end brings
me out all right,
what is said against
me won't amount to anything. If the
end brings me out wrong, ten
angels swearing
I was right would make no
difference.
Abraham
Lincoln
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There
are two kinds of idiots--those who don't take action because
they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking
action because they have issued a threat.
Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action
comes, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do not sit still; start moving
now. In the beginning, you may not go
in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving,
you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
Rodolfo Costa
Advice My Parents Gave Me
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Spiritual
thoughts on action:
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Young people say, What is the sense of our small
effort? They
cannot see that they must lay one brick at a time;
we can be
responsible only for the one action
at the present moment.
But we can beg
for
an increase of love in our hearts that will
vitalize
and transform all
our individual actions,
and know that
God will take them and multiply them,
as Jesus
multiplied the loaves and fishes.
Dorothy Day
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Not enjoyment and not
sorrow
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us further than today. . . .
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act--act in the living present!
Heart within, and God overhead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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No one can write their real religious life
with pen or pencil. It is
written only
in actions, and its seal is our character,
not our
orthodoxy. Whether we,
our neighbor, or God is the judge,
absolutely
the only value of our religious life
to ourselves or to
anyone is what it
fits us for and enables us to do.
Wilfred T. Grenfell
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