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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions
that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own
actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore,
I must stop doing what I've been doing.
Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and
desire.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a
particular way...you become just by performing just actions,
temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing
brave actions.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in
his actions.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct
is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such
must be his spirit.
Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
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 (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's
feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be
distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith,
Florence Nightingale, 1951
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it
a charm.
Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters
of their thoughts
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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