We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
I've arrived at this outermost1 edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly2 unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting3 a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate4 by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970), War Memoirs5, 1960
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous6 spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry7; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), The Last Tycoon8, 1941
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled9 into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
Happiness lies not in the mere10 possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense11, May 26, 1940
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929), Conversation with Jean Martet, January 1 1929
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous12.
Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas, 1759
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute13 courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous14 performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily15; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting16 out.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to George Washington, May 16, 1792
1、outermost ['autəməust]
adj.最外面的，远离中心的
参考例句：
He fired and hit the outermost ring of the target.他开枪射中了靶子的最外一环。
The outermost electron is shielded from the nucleus.原子核对最外层电子的作用受到屏蔽。
2、thoroughly ['θʌrəli]
adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地
参考例句：
The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
3、 temperate ['tempərit]
adj.温和的，温带的，自我克制的，不过分的
参考例句：
Asia extends across the frigid,temperate and tropical zones.亚洲地跨寒、温、热三带。
Great Britain has a temperate climate.英国气候温和。
