Quotes About Actions

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Pissing out the window, and sh*tting out the window, are two different things!

The Road to Hell is Paved With Bad Intentions

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

The end doesn't justify the means.

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.