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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)
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)
Strong reasons make strong actions.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)


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