Action

(246 votes)   Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide
1869-1951, French Author

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(226 votes)   What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(225 votes)   Let us do or die.

Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet

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(214 votes)   I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(203 votes)   Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(203 votes)   I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(202 votes)   Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(202 votes)   To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(201 votes)   He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Latin Proverbs
Sayings of Latin Origin

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(188 votes)   It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(182 votes)   To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(179 votes)   Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(169 votes)   We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(158 votes)   I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(156 votes)   The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Norman Schwarzkopf
1934-, American General of the Gulf War

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