Action And Reaction Quotes

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Opposites

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• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

  Isaac Newton

  Action, Reactions, Equal

  Principia Mathematica "Laws of Motion" 3 (1687) (translation by Andrew Motte)

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• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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• Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

  Isaac Newton

  Opposites, Action, Equal

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• The first reaction to truth is hatred.

  Tertullian

  Truth, Hatred, Firsts

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• By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

  Edward S. Walker, Jr.

  Strong, Character, Mind

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• It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Strong, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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• Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1263, Manonmani Publishers

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• Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Lunch, Use, Action

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• One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fighting, Slavery, Action

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• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Freedom, Real

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• Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

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• Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

  Vernon Howard

  Mind, Example, Watches

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• Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  Marquis de Sade

  Strong, Evil, Perfect

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• There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Grateful, Law

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• Any reaction is better than none.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Reactions

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

  Gertrude Stein

  Opposites, Literature, Action

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.441, Northwestern University Press

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• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Drawing

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, History, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.270, Penguin

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Opposites, Balance

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• The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Law, Answers

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

  Lance Armstrong

  Punishment, Lines, Way

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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