Quotes About Actions

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Men's language is as their lives.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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.

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Few men know all the ill they do.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

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.