Action Quotes - Page 29

• Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Acting, Reason, Pleasure

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.85, VM eBooks

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• Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Two, Reason, Aspect

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doe, Actors, Impossible

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Age

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• The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Causes, Obsessed, Egotism

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 11, 2015

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• A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Wicked Person, Evil, Demon

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Theatre, One Day, Lasts

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• A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Country, Government, Done

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• True Christianity is love in action.

  David O. McKay

  Christianity, True Christianity

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• Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Practice, Society, Use

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Part I. The Value of Freedom, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fate, Destiny, Rare Occasion

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. … Go wash your windows.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Dirty, Order, Looks

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• Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fall, Time Flies, Ego

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• Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Doers, Steps, Planning

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• Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Machines

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Motivation, Results, Observation

  Gustave Le Bon (2013). “The Crowd”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

  Richard Holbrooke

  Essentials, Offensive, Halt

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• We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

  Abdallah II

  Children, Waste, Enough

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• try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Hurt, People, Evil

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• If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Justice, Feelings

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.50, Sophia Institute Press

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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  Gary North

  Christian, Long, Facts

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• Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

  William Graham Sumner

  Motivation, Vanity, Four

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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