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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. --Henri Frederic Amiel

Action is the only reality; not only reality buy morality as well. --Abbie Hoffman

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. --William Shakespeare

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. --Anonymous

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. --A. N. Whitehead

I can give you a six-word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.' - Edward Rickenbacker

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

I reject 'get it done', 'make it happen' thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand them better. --GOVERNOR Jerry Brown

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. --A. N. Whitehead

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. --A. N. Whitehead

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. --W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. --George Bernard Shaw

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. --William Shakespeare

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold--but so does a hard-boiled egg. --Anonymous

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. --Conrad Hilton

The world can only be grasped by action not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. --Jacob Bronowski

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. --Henri Bergson

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. --Haile Selassie

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. --Anatole France

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards. --George Santanyana

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. --Hannah Arendt

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. --Aristotle

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. --Arab Parable

You must do the things you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt