Plato on action
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
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You should not honor men more than truth.
PlatoPlato Love is the pursuit of the whole.
PlatoPlato One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PlatoPlato The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PlatoPlato There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
PlatoPlato No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
PlatoPlato Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoPlato There is truth in wine and children.
PlatoPlato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoPlato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PlatoPlato The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PlatoPlato There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
PlatoPlato I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
PlatoPlato The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PlatoPlato Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
PlatoPlato Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.
Rosa ParksRosa Parks Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.
Henry FordHenry Ford I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.
Billie EilishBillie Eilish Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
ConfuciusConfucius ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
Dr. SeussDr. Seuss Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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