We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

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

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

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus