A Quote by Confucius

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

Confucius

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Action Diligent Gentleman Slow Word

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Joe Orton

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

William Hazlitt

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Augustus Hare

The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.

Emily Post

True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Pierre Daninos

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

Paulo Freire

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

Confucius

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

George Whitefield

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.

Shannon Lee

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

John Owen

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.