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Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway Do well and right, and let the world sink. - George Herbert, Country Parson (ch. XXIX) The shortest answer is doing. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on. - George Herbert, Temple--Church Porch (st. 57) All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. - Herodotus ("Father of History") Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. - Robert Herrick, Hesperides--Seeke and Finde Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds. - George Stillman Hillard To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. - Eric Hoffer Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped by him. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. A man that's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon. - Thomas Hood, Morning Meditations Into the midst of things. [Lat., In medias res.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (148) I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (304) An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment. - Elbert Hubbard Positive anything is better than negative nothing. - Elbert Hubbard It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing--"carry a message to Garcia." - Elbert Hubbard, Carry a Message to Garcia--Philistine Our acts make or mar us,--we the children of our own deeds. - Victor Hugo That action which appears most conducive to the happiness of and virtue of mankind. - Francis Hutcheson, the Elder, A System of Moral Philosophy--The General Notions of Rights, Law Expl. (bk. II, ch. III) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James Actions are visible, though motives are secret. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson Living requires but little life; doing requires much. - Joseph Joubert The act of God injures no one. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. - Karl Kraus Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Displaying page 5 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10
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