"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."

"Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls."

"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties."

"When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ."

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine."

"Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?"

"I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles."

"Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith and winged by prayer, Heaven's eternal day's before thee; God's own hand shall guide thee there."

"The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements."

"The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance."

"The essential elements of giving are power and love — activity and affection — and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."

"All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power."

"Let us remember that Elijah's God was with him only while he was occupied in noble and effectual services. When thus engaged, he exulted in the conscious majesty of a life which had upon it the stamp and signature of Divine power."

"I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate."

"Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

"It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it."

"What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time."

"Napoleon was the most effective man in modern times — some will say of all times. The secret of his character was, that while his plans were more vast, more various, and, of course, more difficult than those of other men, he had the talent at the same time, to fill them up with perfect promptness and precision, in every particular of execution."

"Look around you, and you will behold the universe full of active powers. Action is, so to speak, the genius of nature. By motion and exertion, the system of being is preserved in vigor. By its different parts always acting in subordination one to another, the perfection of the whole is carried on. The heavenly bodies perpetually revolve. Day and night incessantly repeat their appointed course. Continual operations are going on in the earth and in the waters. Nothing stands still. All is alive and stirring throughout the universe. In the midst of this animated and busy scene, is man alone to remain idle in his place? Belongs it to him to be the sole inactive and slothful being in the creation, when in so many various ways he might improve his own nature; might advance the glory of the God who made him; and contribute his part in the general good?"

"Activity in the kingdom of God augments the power of spiritual life, and deepens the consciousness of religious realities."

"Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle—this way or that."

"Actum ne agas."

"Dicta et facta."

"The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust."

"Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line."

"It's a different animal. The action movie requires much more physical dedication and focus, you have to be careful because of potential injuries and so it's very hard and you have to be cautious, while the drama taxes the emotions, and so if you're using some past experienced trauma and try to use it for a scene it might move you beyond expectations."

"Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."

"Wer gar zu viel bedenkt, wird wenig leisten."

"Prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est."

"So much to do; so little done."

"Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."

"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

"Aut petis, aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum."

"Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu."

"Push on,—keep moving."

"Ce qui est faict ne se peult desfaire."

"Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum."

"Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead."

"The good one, after every action, closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours."

"No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it."

"Quelque éclatante que soit une action, elle ne doit pas passer pour grande, lorsqu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand dessein."

"Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds."

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

"It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebræ which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia.""

"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

"The shortest answer is doing."

"Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on."

"Do well and right, and let the world sink."

"A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be To pierce the ether's high, unknown dominions, To reach new spheres of pure activity!"