Action Quotes

• "Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. [Lat., Prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (I)
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• "In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art."
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
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• "Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude."
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
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• "Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!"
  By: Johann Gaudenz Salis, Baron von Salis-Seewis
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• "There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, senses, faculties,--of all of our parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence."
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• "So much to do; so little done."
  By: Cecil John Rhodes, last words
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• "There are three sorts of actions: those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubtful; and we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful; for we are in most danger of these doubtful actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to greater transgressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually reconcile us to darkness."
  By: A. Reed
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• "Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one."
  By: Elvis Presley
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• "Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
  By: Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (epistle I, l. 109)
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• "Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the centre, and the cause detect; Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing."
  By: Plutarch
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• "Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch."
  By: Thomas Paine
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• "Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (4, 459)
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• "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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