He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Thomas Fuller

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale

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

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin