Action Quotes

• "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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• "Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit. No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "To be active is the primary vocation of man."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "To act is easy; to think is hard."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "A bold onset is half the battle."
  By: Giuseppe Garibaldi
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• "If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting there over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one."
  By: James Anthony Froude
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• "Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven."
  By: Saint Francis of Assisi
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• "Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
  By: John William Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune (l. 33)
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• "Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
  By: John William Fletcher
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• "Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth."
  By: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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• "Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much."
  By: Euripides, quoted by Emerson
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• "The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant."
  By: Epictetus
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• "The thing done avails, and not what is said about it."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving action."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
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• "Nothing happens until something moves."
  By: Albert Einstein
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