action Quotes

“Life has a meaning if we choose to give it one. One must first act, throw one's self into some enterprise.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:life action meaning

“We'll take the goodwill for the deed, and thank you as much as if we had.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“Veronika knew that life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wisdom action

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

topic:government action

“what I do I do because I like to do.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

topic:action living

“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:freedom action

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