The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Interpretation
Actions hold more value than intentions.
This quote highlights the importance of taking action rather than simply having good intentions. It suggests that even the smallest action can have a greater impact than grand plans that are never executed, emphasizing the need for practical steps towards achieving oneβs goals.
In practice
During a motivational speech about community service, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of volunteering.
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and more vital relation to nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure.
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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