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

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

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

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
E. Stanley Jones

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones

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

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget

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

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Jose Marti

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia