Favorite quotes

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

We must get beyond debates about the merits of affirmative action and begin to act in the affirmative

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.

In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

You can never get enough of the things you don’t need, because the things you don’t need can never satisfy.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.