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Action Quotes by William Shakespeare
- As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
- When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
- ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us…
- Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
- In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate…
- Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.
- Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
- Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I…
- Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
- What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in…
- In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.
- The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
- This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical…
- Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That…
- Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle