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Action Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Real action is in silent moments.
- To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
- A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
- Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
- All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their…
- History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
- We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a…
- The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
- Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
- We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
- He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,…
- Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
- Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
- Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the…
- If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
- The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
- Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
- Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the…
- If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man…
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
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