Quotes about Actions
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
- Victor Hugo
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
- GK Chesterton
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
- Napoleon Hill
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
- Stephen Covey
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
- George Washington
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
- Henry A. Wallace
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
- Andy Stanley