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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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.

Havel, Vaclav

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

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