Action Quotes by William Shakespeare

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

— William Shakespeare

Strong reasons make strong actions.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

— William Shakespeare

Action is eloquence.

— William Shakespeare

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

— William Shakespeare

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

— William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

— William Shakespeare

A woman's thought runs before her actions.

— William Shakespeare

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

— William Shakespeare

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

— William Shakespeare

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

— William Shakespeare

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

— William Shakespeare

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do…

— William Shakespeare

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

— William Shakespeare

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

— William Shakespeare

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou…

— William Shakespeare

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

— William Shakespeare

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the…

— William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the…

— William Shakespeare

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears…

— William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express…

— William Shakespeare

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold…

— William Shakespeare

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my…

— William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing…

— William Shakespeare

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express…

— William Shakespeare

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With…

— William Shakespeare

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel…

— William Shakespeare

Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn…

— William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our…

— William Shakespeare

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet…

— William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging…

— William Shakespeare

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

— William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to…

— William Shakespeare

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare