Action Quotes

• "The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 473)
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• "All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff."
  By: Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg)
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• "The life of action is nobler than the life of thought."
  By: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
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• "Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent."
  By: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
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• "Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
  By: Malcolm Muggeridge
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• "I do not say the mind gets informed by action, bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties."
  By: William Mountford (1)
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• "Push on,--keep moving."
  By: Thomas Morton, A Cure for the Heartache (act II, sc. 1)
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• "'Tis human actions paint the chart of time."
  By: James Montgomery
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• "What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]"
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (III)
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• "There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose."
  By: Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
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• "Those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 600)
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• "Execute their aery purposes."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 430)
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• "Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n!"
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 330)
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• "As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words."
  By: Wendy McElroy
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• "Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?"
  By: Jean Baptiste Massillon
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• "So much one man can do, That does both act and know."
  By: Andrew Marvell, the Younger, Horatian Ode--Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
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