Quotes About Actions

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Men die the way they lived.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

In some ways, the battlefield is more civilized than court," Lian said, somewhat wistfully. "A man's worth is exactly how much glory his actions bring to his general." Her tone hardened. "Here, a man's worth is calculated by what he says and by what others say about him.