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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. - John Tillotson A life which does not go into action is a failure. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee (2) We cannot all do all things. - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Action is happiness here; and without action there can be no heaven. - Johann Heinrich Voss Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. - John Wanamaker 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. - George Washington, Social Maxims Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells (Mrs. Hadwin Houghton) All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty 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. - Edwin Percy Whipple "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. - Edwin Percy Whipple We cannot think and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. - Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (ch. 12) Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. - John Greenleaf Whittier Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. - William Wordsworth Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle--this way or that. - William Wordsworth, The Borderers (act III) And all may do what has by man been done. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 611) Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 10 of 10 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10]
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