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«It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Action, Goodness | Keywords: profess, professes, professing
«It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: Action | Keywords: accountable, not only
«It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive.»
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
«It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Action, Ideas, Living, People | Keywords: Acts
«It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it»
Author: Charlotte Bronte | About: Action | Keywords: tranquility
«It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.»
«It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Action | Keywords: notice, sit up, take notice
«It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Action, Conscience, Life | Keywords: mainly, mould
«It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.»