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Action Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great;…
- Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for…
- There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we…
- Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.
- The worst thing I can do is nothing.
- Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on…
- In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the…
- Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
- 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…
- Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must…
- I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,…
- For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the…
- We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of…
- In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the…
More Action Quotes
- 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