"Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action." — William George Jordan
"Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action."
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William George Jordan
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22 Quotes by William George Jordan
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Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the…
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He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his…
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Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler…
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The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is…
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If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the…
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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the…
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each…
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Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
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Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege,…
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Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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