Harold Nicolson:
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves (用力推) of its heroes, but also by the aggregate (聚集，集合) of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling (辛苦地工作) upward in the night.
Herman Melville:
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC:
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator(作恶者). Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander (旁观者).
Hugh Prather:
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Jane Addams:
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jawaharlal Nehru:
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jimmy Carter:
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology (神学) and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Joe Hill:
I will die like a true-blue (忠实的, 不妥协气馁的, 热诚的) rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning (哀悼) -- organize.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
John Andrew Holmes:
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes (代替, 替换) for both.
John Dewey:
Conflict is the gadfly (令人振奋的刺激物) of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
John Dewey:
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
John Dewey:
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John F. Kennedy:
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Locke:
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Wesley:
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.