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| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. | | Sean O'Casey | |
| Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. | | Alfred Adler | |
| Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. | | Jules Renard | |
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| Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. | | Peter F. Drucker | |
| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. | | Bob Wells | |
| Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. | | Plato | |
| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. | | George Washington | |
| Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. | | Aristotle | |
| He who hesitates is a damned fool. | | Mae West | |
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| I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" | | George S. Patton | |
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| I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. | | Mae West | |
| I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | | Maya Angelou | |
