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Saturday, 19 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage." (Quincey, Thomas De - Conscience)

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
A well begun is half ended.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Act quickly, think slowly.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Act, don't react!
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Action expresses priorities.
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Action is character.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Action is eloquence.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Actions lie louder than words.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]
Allow motion to equal emotion.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Backbone beats wishbone every time.
Be both the gardener and the rose.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Before you can do something you must first be something.
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.
Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
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