Movement Labour Action

Famous quotes containing the words movement, labour and/or action:

    “Christianity was only a very strong and singularly well-timed Salvation Army movement that happened to receive help from an unusual and highly dramatic incident. It was a Puritan reaction in an age when, no doubt, a Puritan reaction was much wanted; but like all sudden violent reactions, it soon wanted reacting against.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “Let no one till his death
    Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
    Until the day’s out and the labour done.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)