1. Let us do or die.
-Burns, Bruce to his men
at bannockburn
2. Did nothing in particular
And did it very well.
-W. S. Gilbert, Lord Mountararat
3. He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
-Edgar A. Guest, It couldn't be done
4. Do well and right , and let the world sink.
-Herbert, Country Parson
5. Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,-act in the living present!
Heart within and God overhead.
-Longfellow, Plasm of life
6. Let us then be up and doing ,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
-Longfellow, Plasm of life
7. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
-Lowell
8. He nothing common did, or mean,
Upon that memorable scene.
-Marvell, Horatian
Ode. Upon Cromwell's
Return from Ireland
9. Go and do thou likewise.
-Luke X. 37
10. So much to do; so little done.
-Cecil Rhodes, Last Words
11. Get good counsel before you begin, and when you have decided, act promptly.
-Sallust, Catilina
12. He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
-Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
13. What's done can't be undone.
-Shakespeare, Macbeth Act. V. Sc. 1
14. Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
-Sophocles, Fragment
15. Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
-Tennyson, Charge of the
light brigade
16. Out of the strain of doing,
Into the peace of done.
-Julia Woodruff, Gone
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