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“It has not been the path for the faint hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame, rather it has been the risk takers, the doers, the makers of things, some celebrated, but more often men and...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

topic:freedom action risk

“‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

topic:fear action

“It is in 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.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:action satisfaction

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

topic:freedom action faith

“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:humanity action

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:action judgement independence

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

topic:death action

“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:action thought

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”

― Martin Luther, Table Talk

topic:world hope action

“I think I must have a good deal of my uncle Theodore Roosevelt in me because I enjoy a good fight and I could not, at any age, really be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:action comfort

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