Action Quotes

• "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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• "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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