• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 68 reads

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• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 167 reads

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• Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 52 votes · 99 reads

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• We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 7 reads

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 154 reads

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 94 reads

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• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 57 reads

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• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 52 reads

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.8 · 7 votes · 46 reads

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• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 41 votes · 95 reads

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 78 reads

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• We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 144 reads

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• We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 20 reads

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• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  

  Simone Weil

  PhilosopherFrench1909 · 20th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 82 reads

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• We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 10 votes · 104 reads

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.5 · 10 votes · 86 reads

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• We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 140 reads

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• We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 25 reads

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• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 59 votes · 96 reads

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 54 reads

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• Well begun is half done.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.7 · 44 votes · 6 reads

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• What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 81 reads

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• What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 195 reads

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• What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 134 reads

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• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 124 reads

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 169 reads

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• What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 166 reads

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• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 160 reads

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• What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 57 votes · 122 reads

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• What you are will show in what you do.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 147 reads

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• Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 154 reads

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

  

  Georges Clemenceau

  JournalistFrench1841 · 19th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 91 reads

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• When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 31 reads

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• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 140 reads

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• When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 185 reads

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• While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly wo

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.0 · 62 votes · 15 reads

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• Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 78 reads

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• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 15 reads

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• You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 15 votes · 173 reads

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• You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 69 reads

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 75 reads

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