When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
Interpretation
Evaluating the nature of action indicates a lack of genuine commitment to taking action.
This quote by Georges Clemenceau suggests that overthinking or questioning the essence of action may signify a person's hesitation or incapacity to act. A true man of action simply takes initiative rather than getting caught up in theoretical discussions about it.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming procrastination.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.
You, boy, who owe everything to a name
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