"Superman: It's not about where you were born. Or what powers you have. Or what you wear on your chest. ... It's about what you do... It's about action."

"She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy."

"Waiting for power to move to its inevitable collapse is suicidal for all concerned. Blacks and other Third World peoples have the very imminent prospect of genocidal tactics to contend with, and we can now all see that the modern industrial state, motivated by exclusive groups of capitalist masters, cannot regulate itself to make possible an inclusive production and distribution of goods, or production without a massive waste of resources and destruction of all that stands about. The debate ends, the action begins. It is not question of the necessity of violence, but of how to organize it."

"The highest function of philosophy is to enforce the attitude of meditation and therewithal restrain the excessive volubility of the tongue. To us it seems that the reflective thinker wins his greatest victories when by what he says he compels us to recognise the relative insignificance of anything he can say. His task is not to capture Reality, but to free it from captivity."

"A good man deliberating which of several actions proposed he shall choose, regards and compares the material goodness of them, and then is determined by his moral sense invariably preferring that which appears most conducive to the happiness and virtue of mankind."

"If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?"

"The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. 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 the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!""

"In medias res."

"Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi."

"A man that's fond precociously of stirring, Must be a spoon."

"If action, however violent, evolves from character, there is no higher literary expression and the ultimate crystallization of character is likely to lie in physical rather than psychological action."

"Letting I dare not wait upon I would is a mug's game, and those who play it usually get mugged."

"people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information."

"Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."

"Let's meet and either do or die."

"Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce; but they scourge before them the lazy elements, which without them would stagnate into pestilence."

"For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving action."

"Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year."

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."

"Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious."

"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

"A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe."

"It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness."

"Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyng Right as yow list."

"Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest."

"To-morrow let us do or die."

"Put his shoulder to the wheel."

"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it."

"Fate quello che noi diciamo e non quello che noi facciamo."

"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."

"Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment."

"Action implies motion; but there may be motion, as in a clock, where, properly speaking, there is no agent. Many motions necessary to life are continually going on in the human body; as those of the heart, lungs, and arteries: but these are not human actions, because man is not the cause of them. For the same reason, breathing, and the motion of the eyelids, are not actions; because, though we may act for a little time in suspending them, for the purpose of seeing or hearing more accurately, they commonly go on without any care of ours; and, while they do so, we are, in regard to them, not active, but passive. ... All action is the work of an agent, that is, of a being who acts; and every being who acts is the beginner of that motion which constitutes the action."

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

"They are good that are away."

"The absent shall not be made heir."

"The absent are always in the wrong."

"Since you have waned from us, Fairest of women! I am a darkened cage Songs cannot hymn in. My songs have followed you, Like birds the summer; Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, dear comer! Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!"

"Præfulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur."

"The absence of lost things is felt most painfully when the things you possess stop providing satisfaction."

"How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere."

"All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

"Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."

"For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa."

"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."

"Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by."