Action Quotes

• "Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering."
  By: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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• "And all may do what has by man been done."
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 611)
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• "Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle--this way or that."
  By: William Wordsworth, The Borderers (act III)
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• "Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may."
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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• "Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier
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• "We cannot think and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (ch. 12)
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• "There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight," says Goethe "I would open every one, of Argus' hundred eyes before I used one of Briareus' hundred hands," says Lord Bacon. "Look before you leap," says John Smith, all over the world."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "All serious daring starts from within."
  By: Eudora Welty
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• "A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of goodwill are very far from being the surest marks of it."
  By: George Washington, Social Maxims
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• "Nothing comes merely by thinking about it."
  By: John Wanamaker
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• "Action is happiness here; and without action there can be no heaven."
  By: Johann Heinrich Voss
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• "We cannot all do all things."
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "A life which does not go into action is a failure."
  By: Arnold Joseph Toynbee (2)
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• "It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other."
  By: John Tillotson
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