Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person’s neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something.
If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn’t leave you too much over for action.
I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Do not wait. The time will never be “just right.”
All men are alike in their words; their actions only show them to be different.[Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles; et ce n’est que les actions, qui les découvrent differens.]
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…
Action is eloquence.
