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The activity of the young is like that of rail cars in motion,--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure. Time's best gift to us is serenity. - Christian Nestell Bovee What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in of that it leads to a performing manhood. - Christian Nestell Bovee Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande, Wake Up and Live! Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature. - Phillips Brooks That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. - Robert Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral The food of hope is meditative action. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - attributed to Edmund Burke What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. - Robert Burns, Address to Unco Guild (st. 8) Let us do or die. - Robert Burns, Bannockburn Put his shoulder to the wheel. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2) Let us do or die. - Thomas Campbell To-morrow let us do or die. - Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. III, st. 37) Always do whatever's next. - George Carlin Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved in speech; in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. - Thomas Carlyle Hast thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: the end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were of the noblest. - Thomas Carlyle 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. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. - Thomas Carlyle Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action, and not thought, though it were the noblest. - Thomas Carlyle, quoting Aristotle Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. - Dale Carnegie The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. - attributed to Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor), Apothegms (no. 247), by Bacon A comptemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. - Lord David Cecil (Edward Christian David Cecil) Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that wild vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. - George Chapman, Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (act V, sc. 1) With a double vigilance should we watch our actions, when we reflect that good and bad ones are never childless, and that in both cases the offspring goes beyond the parent,--every good begetting a better, every bad a worse. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) Displaying page 2 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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