Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Very
  • Shy
  • Modest

• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Like

• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Try
  • Modest
  • Frivolous

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Think

• Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Action
  • Need

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Understanding
  • Appreciation

• Without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Action

• If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Action

• Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Action

• Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Action
  • Courage

• O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Poetry
  • Lyric

• Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Movie

• Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • God
  • Mind
  • Peace

• I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Want
  • Company
  • Employees

• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

  

  Horace
  • Action
  • Modest