Quotes About Action

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

He that sets his home on fire because his fingers are frostbitten can never be a fit instructor in the method of providing our habitations with a cheerful and salutary warmth.

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A revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.

But liberty, when men act in bodies, is power.

The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -

It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act

Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species it almost always acts right.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Irish orator, philosopher, & politician

Perché il male trionfi è sufficiente che i buoni rinuncino all'azione.

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

A revolution never will start among a bunch of bums.

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

Watch what I do –           that reflects who I am. Don't just listen to what I say, that only reflects who I want to be.

If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.

Hay muchas clases de mujeriegos. A unos los mueve la vanidad o un sentimiento de poder; a otros, la avidez. Luc actuada movido por un simple motivo: una insondable curiosidad.

This nervous action, which he sometimes performed every few minutes, was like a man crossing himself before an alter- the Drugs; the Cash; and the Holy Ghost of Credit.

Sin is ultimately against God. It is any failure to conform to the law of God in either action or attitude

Remember that in the Bible, "This is who God is and what he has done" always precedes "This is what you must do.