A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
行动
Action
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
欲望的前提是有可能采取行动来实现它;行动的前提是有一个值得实现的目标。
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
我们为行动而生;凡是能够提出建议和指导行动的东西，从一开始就对我们有力量。
Success seems to be connected with action. Succesful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
成功似乎与行动有关。成功的人不断前进。他们会犯错，但不会放弃。
Activities provide their own motive force. … What we think of as our pushing is often the pushing of the activity.
活动提供自己的动力。我们所认为的“推动”往往是活动的推动。
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
吹嘘四件事的人是傻瓜:他有好酒，好马，漂亮的妻子，还有很多钱。
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
我认为一个人的感情是用言语来表达的;它们都应该浓缩成能带来结果的行动。
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
世界之所以是一个危险的地方，不是因为那些作恶的人，而是因为那些袖手旁观、无所作为的人。
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
我所负责或我的行政当局所负责的行动应在法律范围内。
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
世界正处于一场与工业革命一样引人注目的经济和文化变革的风口浪尖。
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
对自己使命的坚定信念所激发的一小群坚定的精神可以改变历史的进程。
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
我们的内心都有光明和黑暗。重要的是我们选择采取什么行动。这才是我们真正的自己。
We saw last year that Congress' inability to bring things to closure just adds to uncertainty and drags the economy.
去年我们看到，国会无力解决问题，只会增加不确定性，拖累经济。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
我们做的每一个决定，采取的每一个行动，都是出于一个意图。
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
我的国家为我安排了一个最微不足道的职位，这个职位是人类的发明或想象力所构想出来的。
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
一幅好画等于一件好事。
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
如果你把生活中的每一件事都当作是你的最后一件事来做，你就会从空虚的幻想中得到休息。
I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.
我认为我们所有人都是由我们所做的选择所塑造的。