Quotes about Actions

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.

But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

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

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.