action Quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Opportunity makes a thief.