Quotes about Actions
Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.
— Randy Ingermanson
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
— John Milton
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
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