Action Quotes

• "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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• "He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene."
  By: Andrew Marvell, the Younger, Horatian Ode--Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
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• "It is well to think well; it is divine to act well."
  By: Horace Mann
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• "It is good policy to strike while the iron is hot; it is still better to adopt Cromwell's procedure, and make the iron hot by striking. The masterspirit who can rule the storm is great, but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it."
  By: Elias L. Magoon
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• "Thinking that nothing was done, if anything remained to do. [Lat., Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum.]"
  By: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (II, 657)
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• "Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
  By: James Russell Lowell, Among My Books--Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
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• "For each of our actions there are only consequences."
  By: James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look of Life on Earth (p. 140)
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• "Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Long to labor and to wait."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life
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• "With useless endeavour, Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora--Chorus of the Eumenides
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• "The food one, after every action, closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
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• "No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II, A Village Church)
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• "Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
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• "Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. * * * * * Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act, in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of the thoughts."
  By: John Locke (1)
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• "The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance."
  By: Canon Henry P. Liddon
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• "He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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