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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. - Adam Clarke You must act as you breathe. - Georges B.E. Clemenceau Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. - Charles Caleb Colton No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. - Charles Caleb Colton Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. - Charles Caleb Colton The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world. - Charles Caleb Colton We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough (1) Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road. - Sir William D'Avenant I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. - Dorothy Day Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. - Sir John Denham, The Sophy--A Tragedy Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield For good or evil must in our actions meet; Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. - Dr. John Donne Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. - John Dryden There is only one proof of ability,--action. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Albert Einstein Nothing happens until something moves. - Albert Einstein People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. - Albert Einstein For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength In furthest striving action. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV) A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Every noble activity makes room for itself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We are thought by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Displaying page 3 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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