Quotes About Actions

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.