Progress: 'Speak to protect the ideals of goodness, and act to make them real in the world. The first proves a consummate mind, the second a valorous heart. Noble words are the seeds of noble actions, and noble actions enable true human progress.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Protecting ideals through speech and realizing them through action drives human progress.
- In plain terms
- Speak for goodness and act to make it real for progress.
- What can you take from it?
- Combine noble words with noble actions for progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do your actions match your words?
- What ideal will you act on?
Another view
Words without action can sometimes be mere performance.
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