Quotes About Actions

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. But you see, you can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.

Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don't play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment of the market, and they don't respond to the actions of active managers.

In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Handsome is that handsome does.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

By his deeds we know a man.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.