Seek those capable of speech and action

Those who desire, not to chatter empty nonsense, but to further some practical purpose, and those who think they have hit upon some plan for the common good, must leave it to others to harangue at the public festivals, but must themselves win over someone to champion their cause from among men who are capable not only of speech but of action. Isocrates. To Philip. Book 5. Section 13.

Relief depicting the Roman Emperor Hadrian being greeted by a Genius (personification) of the
Roman Senate, once part of a triumphal monument to Hadrian photographed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy.