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Action Quotes by George Washington
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.
- A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
- Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under…
- At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
- Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to…
- A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should…
- A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that…
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
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- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle