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Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Captain (act V, sc. 5)
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Let's meet and either do or die.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Island Princess (act II, sc. 2)
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 10)
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Go, and do thou likewise.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. X, v. 37)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: "Golden Rule", Matthew (ch. VII, v. 12)
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Iron sharpeth iron.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 17)
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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.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Address to Unco Guild (st. 8)
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Let us do or die.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Bannockburn
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Put his shoulder to the wheel.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2)
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To-morrow let us do or die.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. III, st. 37)
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Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Signs of the Times
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with
new.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Signs of the Times
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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (act V, sc. 1)
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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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Senectute (IX)
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Senectute (IX)
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Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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Nothing happens until something moves.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
results.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: The Sophy--A Tragedy
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For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving action.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
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Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
Author: Euripides
Source: quoted by Emerson
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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.
Author: John Fletcher
Source: Upon an Honest Man's Fortune (l. 33)
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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!
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (bk. I, sc. 1)
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Author: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Source: None
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Any one can count the seeds in an apple..
Only God can count the apples in a seed.
Author: Robert Schuller
Source: None
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Like a wind scattering
dandelion spores
or maple samaras
Lind the NASA shuttle
which when it exploded
sent people and thousands
of captive lab animals
over 6 states
the innocent little
nameless
Mad Cow* was decimated
after
drawn and quartered
and sent by porters
to 4 states' quarters.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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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.
Author: Georges Clemenceau
Source: None
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: None
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Author: Baltasar Graciánn Baltasar
Source: None
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Author: John N. Mitchell
Source: None
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Source: None
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Author: Peter Marshall
Source: None
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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.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: None
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Source: None
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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.
Author: Georges Clemenceau
Source: None
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Author: John Locke
Source: None
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Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
Author: Henri Bergson
Source: None
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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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.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: None
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Source: None
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The best way out is always through.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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