"It is not necessary for all men to……" — Horace Bushnell
"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience."
—
Horace Bushnell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
22 Quotes by Horace Bushnell
Horace Bushnell has 22 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
-
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species…
-
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of…
-
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is…
-
Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love…
-
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
-
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how…
-
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is…
-
A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and…
-
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
-
Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to…
-
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that…
See all 22 quotes by Horace Bushnell »
More Action Quotes
This quote is filed under Action Quotes,
one of 8,300 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Aristotle
-
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
See all 8,300 Action Quotes »