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Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Spike Lee

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Martin Heidegger

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Charles Horton Cooley

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