Actions Quotes

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato

Virtue, Relative, Ages

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

War, Cannot, Succeed

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson

Hurt, Sorry, Done

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Rights

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack Obama

War, Resolution, Answer

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther

Fail, Righteous, Virtuous

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Design, Yourself, Often

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Words, Themselves

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Peace, Ignorance, Real

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

Leadership, Attitude, Words

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson

Thinking, Control, Worry

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Best, Judge, Long

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Past, Others, Moral

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo

Great, Small, Committed

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill

Evil, Person, May

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo

Democratic, Tastes

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Wisdom, Mind

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Charles Caleb Colton

Threats, Loudest, Weakest

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

Men, Best, Thought

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley

Fear, Failure, Confidence

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
George Washington Carver

Hate, Real, Thoughts

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Hillary Clinton

Words, Democracy, Often

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

Lie, Law, Within

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman

Destiny, Fate, Grow

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

Life, Good, Bad

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal

Between, Desire, Force

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman

Beauty, Themselves, Rely

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal

Force, Source, Causes

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