Action will _x000D_ delineate and_x000D_ define you.
Interpretation
Your actions shape your identity and reputation.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of actions in defining who we are as individuals. It suggests that our choices and behaviors create our legacy and influence how we are perceived by others, implying that to understand a person's character, one should look at their actions rather than their words or intentions.
In practice
A motivational speaker might use this quote to inspire an audience to take initiative in their lives.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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