Action Quotes

• "The end of man is an action, and not thought, though it were the noblest."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, quoting Aristotle
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• "Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Hast thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: the end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were of the noblest."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved in speech; in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Always do whatever's next."
  By: George Carlin
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• "To-morrow let us do or die."
  By: Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. III, st. 37)
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• "Put his shoulder to the wheel."
  By: Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2)
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• "The food of hope is meditative action."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit."
  By: Robert Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral
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• "Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature."
  By: Phillips Brooks
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• "What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in of that it leads to a performing manhood."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "The activity of the young is like that of rail cars in motion,--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure. Time's best gift to us is serenity."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "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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