Quotes 321 till 340 of 446.
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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