"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on action
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"All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full."

Bible on action
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"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on action   

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

Barrymore, John on death
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Adams, John on desire
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"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race."

Mencken, H. L. on decency
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"No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on decency   

"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."

Hampton, Christopher on deception
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

Charron, Pierre on deception
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"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on daughters
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"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on action
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"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Besant, Annie on action
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"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live."

Lombardi, Vince on dedication
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"The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat."

Olsen, Merlin on dedication   

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."

Mays, Willie on dedication
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"The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost."

Seaver, Tom on dedication   

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Johnson, Samuel on abuse
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

Mencken, H. L. on abuse
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

Unknown, Source on abuse
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action   

"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"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."

Anster, John on action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on action
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus on action
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on action
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"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

Bach, Richard on desire
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"I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed."

Arata, Tony on dream
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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

Updike, John on rain
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"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

Delillo, Don on rain
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"People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them."

Burke, Edmund on relationship
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"The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death."

Dowling, Colette on relationship
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