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Action Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account…
- I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.
- I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will…
- All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to…
- Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
- Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
- The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- 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
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- 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
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle