Action Quotes

• "Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are incompatible."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature."
  By: Hugh Blair
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• "The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed."
  By: Bible, Samuel (ch. II, v. 3)
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• "Iron sharpeth iron."
  By: Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 17)
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• "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."
  By: Bible, "Golden Rule", Matthew (ch. VII, v. 12)
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• "Go, and do thou likewise."
  By: Bible, Luke (ch. X, v. 37)
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• "Be slow in considering, but resolute in action."
  By: Bias of Priene
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• "The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
  By: Mary Frances Berry
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• "Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "Let's meet and either do or die."
  By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Island Princess (act II, sc. 2)
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• "Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment."
  By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain (act V, sc. 5)
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• "The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous."
  By: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
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• "Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence."
  By: Joanna Baillie
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• "The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken."
  By: Philip James Bailey
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