William Shakespeare Action Quotes

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

- William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- William Shakespeare

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

- William Shakespeare

Your degree is just a piece of paper, Your education is seen in your behaviour.

- Anonymous

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

- Marcia Wieder

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it

- Stephen Covey

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Jean Paul Richter

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Johann Von Schiller

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

- Gurdjieff

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

- Nagarjuna

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

- Bhagavad Gita