| Author |
Quotes |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement Mankind has to be stirred up |
| Anatole France | It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. |
| Bible | Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. |
| Bible | Go, and do thou likewise. |
| Bible | Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. |
| Bible | Iron sharpeth iron. |
| Daniel Webster | Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. |
| Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. |
| Euripides | Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. |
| George Chapman | He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. |
| Georges Clemenceau | A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe. |
| Georges Clemenceau | When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. |
| Heinrich Heine | Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. |
| Henri Bergson | Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 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! |
| John Fletcher | Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still? |
| John Locke | The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
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