Action

(80 votes)   When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

Plutarch
46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

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(79 votes)   It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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(79 votes)   Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(79 votes)   Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(79 votes)   We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

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(78 votes)   Action is eloquence.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(78 votes)   People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler

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(77 votes)   Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(77 votes)   Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy
American Spiritual Writer

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(77 votes)   The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Carl Sandburg
1878-1967, American Poet

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(76 votes)   As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Veda Upanishads
c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics

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(76 votes)   He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(76 votes)   The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(75 votes)   It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(74 votes)   Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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