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Quotations
On Action
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- The
thing
done avails, and not
what is said about it.—Emerson.
- Action
may
not always bring
happiness; but there is no happiness without action.—Beaconsfield.
- There
are
three sorts of actions:
those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubtful;
and
we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful; for we are in
most danger of these doubtful actions, because they do not alarm us;
and
yet they insensibly lead to greater transgressions, just as the shades
of twilight gradually reconcile us to darkness.—A. Reed.
- To the
valiant actions speak
alone.—Smollett.
- It is
well
to think well: it
is divine to act well.—Horace Mann.
- Active
natures are rarely melancholy.
Activity and melancholy are incompatible.—Bovee.
Not
enjoyment, and
not sorrow,
Is our
destined end or
way;
But to act,
that each
to-morrow
Finds us
farther than
to-day.
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Trust no
Future, howe'er
pleasant!
Let the
dead Past bury
its dead!
Act, act,
in the living
Present!
Heart
within, and God
o'erhead!
—Longfellow.
- Every
man
feels instinctively
that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single
lovely action.—Lowell.
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- It is
not
to taste sweet things,
but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's
heaven
as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him
the
way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.—Carlyle.
- Deliberate
with caution, but
act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with
firmness.—Colton.
- When
our
souls shall leave this
dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the
scutcheons
on our tomb, or silken banners over us.—J. Shirley.
- Our
acts
make or mar us,—we
are the children of our own deeds.—Victor Hugo.
- Man,
being
essentially active,
must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and
labor,
like everything else that is good, is its own reward.—Whipple.
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