action

901.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

- Miller, Henry

902.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

903.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

904.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

- Quennell, Peter

905.

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

906.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

- Needham, Richard J.

907.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

- Young, Brigham

908.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

- Akhenaton

909.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

- Bacon, Francis

910.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

911.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

- Anna Lappe

912.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.

- Lawrence, D. H.

913.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

914.

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

- Leonard, George

915.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

- Lippmann, Walter

916.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

- Confucius

917.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

918.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

- Clarke, Arthur C.

919.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

- Decter, Midge

920.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.