Action Quotes

• "Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son."
  By: John Dryden
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• "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year."
  By: Sir John Denham, The Sophy--A Tragedy
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• "Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road."
  By: Sir William D'Avenant
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• "The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "You must act as you breathe."
  By: Georges B.E. Clemenceau
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• "I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate."
  By: Adam Clarke
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• "What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Senectute (IX)
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• "With a double vigilance should we watch our actions, when we reflect that good and bad ones are never childless, and that in both cases the offspring goes beyond the parent,--every good begetting a better, every bad a worse."
  By: Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith)
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• "He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best."
  By: George Chapman, Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (act V, sc. 1)
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• "This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that wild vibrate in eternity."
  By: Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• "A comptemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise."
  By: Lord David Cecil (Edward Christian David Cecil)
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• "Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy."
  By: Dale Carnegie
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• "The end of man is an action, and not thought, though it were the noblest."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, quoting Aristotle
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