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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.


Demosthenes

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AGESILAUS THE SECOND [A story was told about Demosthenes and another orator. When the unnamed orator (understandably forg...
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PLUTARCH While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to so...
JOHN PODHORETZ No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock...
FRANK ZAPPA When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was...
PLUTARCH We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
NICOLAS ROEG We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the pos...
JOHN BRIGHT The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city,...
ANONYMOUS Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipi...
THOMAS CARLYLE By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tenden...
MAHAVIRA Speech is always bolder than action.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words fro...
OSCAR WILDE Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.
LAURA KASISCHKE A life in the flesh is an empty life; it is a life lived in vain and will never bring any satisfacti...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
JACOB BRONOWSKI It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTË It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for bot...
JOHN ANDREW HOLMES Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for bot...
JOHN ANDREW It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by...
AMBROSE BIERCE All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit
JOHN OWEN Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by spe...
PLUTARCH Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
BRYANT H. MCGILL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Proper action, not a fancy speech, is the cure.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated...
SENECA Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
BOONE PICKENS It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or...
JOSEPH RATZINGER Why should Allah chastise you if you are grateful and believe? And Allah is the Multiplier of reward...
QURAN You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for p...
MARIA CORAZON AQUINO Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for ...
CORAZON AQUINO Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for p...
CORAZON AQUINO In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
PYTHAGORAS There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect politica...
BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility
JOSEPH CONRAD Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the c...
DADA BHAGWAN May there be unison in the speech and action of humans. Only by this shall, unity emerge and serve e...
RIG VEDA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for p...
CORAZON AQUINO Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER Real progress is accompanied by a fundamental change in thinking.
JIM GENOVESE Hutchison's Law:Any occurrence requiring undivided attention will be accompanied by a compelling dis...
ROBERT BLOCH All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side o...
THEODORE BIKEL [While digital speech is sounding better, it still has a way to go, industry experts acknowledge.] S...
JANET BAKER All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess...
MARGARET ATWOOD The story is accompanied by all this tapping and whacking and touching and rubbing and bumping on yo...
JOHN CASSIDY Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est glo...
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FRANK MURPHY We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
JERRY SPRINGER Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
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PTAH-HOTEP In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
FLORENCE KING Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
PLATO Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; bu...
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COLIN M. MORRIS Everything is undefined, and that is accompanied by a lack of character and principle among the peop...
ISA QOSYA If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
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JANET BAKER He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of...
HINDU PROVERB Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Hutchison's Law:
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