"Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth."
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"All effective actions require the passport of morality."
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"Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour."
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"Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action."
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"Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else."
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"...one cannot lodge in if."
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"I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do."
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"Without action, you aren't going anywhere."
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"Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place."
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"Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action."
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"The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage."
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"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
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"Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."
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"There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action."
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"You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way."
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"One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield."
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"Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning."
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"The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions."
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"The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action."
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"Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity."
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