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Action Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent…
- A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
- We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what…
- There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will…
- Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
- Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic…
- A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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