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Action Quotes - Page 88

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus”, p.88

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.351, A&C Black

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001