Action Quotes

• "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it."
  By: Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedberg)
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• "Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line."
  By: Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (ch. XXXII, par. 4)
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• "Deeds always overbalance; and downright practice speaks more plainly than the fairest profession."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act."
  By: Sophocles, Fragment (288)
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• "To the valiant actions speak alone."
  By: Tobias George Smollett
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• "Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also."
  By: William Gilmore Simms
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• "Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."
  By: James Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (sc. 3)
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• "When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us."
  By: James Shirley
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• "It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions."
  By: James Sharp
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• "We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at I, ii)
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• "Things done well And with a care exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be feared."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at I, ii)
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• "How my achievements mock me! I will go meet them."
  By: William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at IV, ii)
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