Action Quotes

• "There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight," says Goethe "I would open every one, of Argus' hundred eyes before I used one of Briareus' hundred hands," says Lord Bacon. "Look before you leap," says John Smith, all over the world."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "All serious daring starts from within."
  By: Eudora Welty
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• "A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of goodwill are very far from being the surest marks of it."
  By: George Washington, Social Maxims
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• "Nothing comes merely by thinking about it."
  By: John Wanamaker
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• "Action is happiness here; and without action there can be no heaven."
  By: Johann Heinrich Voss
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• "We cannot all do all things."
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "A life which does not go into action is a failure."
  By: Arnold Joseph Toynbee (2)
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• "It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant it forms, would execute, a great design"
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "Do not do what is already done. [Lat., Actum ne agas.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Phormio (II, 3, 72)
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• "Said and done. Done as soon as said. [Lat., Dicta et facta.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Eunuchus (5, 4, 19)
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• "When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can."
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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• "Theirs not to make replay, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade (st. 2)
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• "The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust."
  By: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, A New Version of the Psalms of David (psalm 112, st. 6), (a paraphrase of Psalm 112)
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• "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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