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.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
The most important thing to do is really listen.
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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