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Quotes about Actions

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke, English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)

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, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Actions lie louder than words.
- Carolyn Wells

Strong reasons make strong actions.
- William Shakespeare, Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

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

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, US editor & reformer (1897 - 1980)

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, Greek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC)

CP Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
- Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763 - 1825)

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964)