Action Quotes

• "It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing--"carry a message to Garcia.""
  By: Elbert Hubbard, Carry a Message to Garcia--Philistine
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• "I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (304)
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• "Into the midst of things. [Lat., In medias res.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (148)
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• "A man that's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon."
  By: Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations
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• "Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped by him."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium."
  By: Eric Hoffer
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• "Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds."
  By: George Stillman Hillard
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• "Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out."
  By: Robert Herrick, Hesperides--Seeke and Finde
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• "All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."
  By: Herodotus ("Father of History")
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• "Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on."
  By: George Herbert, Temple--Church Porch (st. 57)
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• "Do well and right, and let the world sink."
  By: George Herbert, Country Parson (ch. XXIX)
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• "The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
  By: Heinrich Heine
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• "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author."
  By: Joseph Hall
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• "Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; you have not a faculty of body, mind, or soul whose law of improvement is not energy."
  By: E.B. Hall
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• "A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions, To reach new spheres of pure activity!"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (bk. I, sc. 1)
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