Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
~ Alfred Adler
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous
to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular
and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of
moral character.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing
just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. -
What was Barack becoming the last twenty years when he attended that church
and chummed with the the Chicago plitical machine.
~ Aristotle
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
~ Charlotte Whitton
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting
work moves mountains.
~ Danilo Dolci
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake motion for action.
~ Ernest Hemmingway
Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
~ Goethe
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
~ Jane Addams
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where
it often substitutes for both.
~ John Andrew Holmes
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts.
~ John Locke
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely
different things.
~ Margaret Mead
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things,
and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less
crowded.
~ Mark Twain
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail
we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties
furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret
self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
(sermon, October 15, 1826)
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our acts make or mar us, -- we are the children of our own deeds.
~ Victor Hugo
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
~ Mark Twain
Do-so is more important than "say-so."
~ Pete Seeger
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think
our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it
will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine
our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what
we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. Abraham Lincoln
did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would
sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning
him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year
earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had
been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is
the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea
in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work
that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the
man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk
about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of
the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil
that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their
souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and
brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
~ Mark Twain
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make
yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
~ Pearl S. Buck
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do,
nothing else.
~ Gandhi, Mahatma
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts.
~ John Locke
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mans heart is found in his actions.
~ Unknown
If you really want to know what is in a mans heart, look at his
actions; words can deceive actions tell the truth.
~ Unknown
