"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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"Music is the language that speaks to every heart."
PeleJA
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"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate." -
O. HENRY, The Green Door
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Krishnamurti
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
- Aristotle
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -
Edmund Burke, attributed
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"Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else."
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
- Confucius
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"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing." -
William Feather
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"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." -
Brendan Francis
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"Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature."
- Bhagavad Gita
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"Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
- JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Ascent of Man
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
- JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Among My Books
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"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Hale, Edward Everett
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"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." )
- Luther, Martin (1483-1546
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"If you have love you will do all things well."
- Merton, Thomas
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"Pop music tells you that everything is OK and rock music tells you that it's not, but that you can change it."
~ U2's Bono
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"If you're going to make it in the entertainment business, you need a do-or-die attitude. There are no alternatives."
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~ Jennifer Lopez
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"I rather to be hated for who I am than to be loved for who I'm not"
Anonymous
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"The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win."
- BOBBY KNIGHT
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