actions quotes

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

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

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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

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

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

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

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