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Quotations from the Wayside
So do your work in the world that others may do their work better.
FELIX ADLER
Let yourself and not your words preach for you.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Stand and silently watch the world go by—and it will.
ANONYMOUS
Everyone is taking a stand these days and so there is a lot of standing around.
JAMES BEVEL
To think of God all the time is to preclude doing the will of God.
E. S. BRIGHTMAN
All service ranks the same with God—there is no last or first.
ROBERT BROWNING
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO
May your life preach more loudly than your lips.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
God heeds not what we say, but what we are and what we do.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
CHINESE PROVERB
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
Trouble neglected becomes still more troublesome.
CONFUCIUS
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
DANISH PROVERB
The immediate reward of noble action is that it lifts a man above himself.
ERNEST DIMNET
Where there is so much to be done . . . there must be something for me to
do.
DOROTHEA DIX
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The destiny of mankind hangs in the balance of what we say and what we accomplish.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn’t matter
who gets the credit.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The brothers should preach by their works.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Every word is vain that is not completed by deed.
ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAM
Ability is useless unless it is used.
ROBERT HALF
In our era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD
Religious ends are in need of our deeds.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL
To remain aloof is to die before one begins to live.
WILLIAM E. HOCKING
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
JAEGER’S FACTS
I will show thee my faith by my works.
JAMES 2:18
The service of the highest is a cosmic patriotism which calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JONES
Now is the time come; let it not pass unused.
JAVANESE INSCRIPTION
Let us not love in word or speech, but in deed and in truth.
I JOHN 3:18
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
CARL JUNG
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
HENRY J. KAISER
It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.
KIERKEGAARD
Men are brothers in good deeds regardless of their different creeds.
PHILIP M. LARSON
You become what you do, not what you think.
EDUARD LINDEMAN
It is labor that puts the difference of value on
everything.
JOHN LOCKE
Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.
ORIN E. MADISON
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL
People who look too long upon evil without opposing it go dead inside.
AGNES E. MEYER
To forbear doing is often as noble as to do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MOTHER JONES
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.
MOTHER TERESA
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
WILLIAM PENN
Liberty is not permission to withdraw from the world’s battles.
H. L. SHORT
Words are so easy; action is so difficult.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Wishing and hoping avail little. Only action pays.
L. C. STECKLE
Our failure to choose may become the choice we have to live with.
ROBERT STEIN
We do not have to wait until we are excellent before we can do excellent
things.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
Be not simply good; be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
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