Quotes About Actions

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

Hell, they says, is paved with good intentions.

One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

dream. But these kinds of inspiration Lydgate regarded as rather vulgar and vinous compared with the imagination that reveals subtle actions inaccessible by any sort of lens, but tracked in that outer darkness through long pathways of necessary sequence by the inward light which is the last refinement of Energy, capable of bathing even the ethereal atoms in its ideally illuminated space.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best. The theater of all my actions is fallen, said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead, and they are fortunate who get a theater where the audience demands their best.

The theatre of all my actions is fallen, said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead; and they are fortunate who get a theatre where the audience demands their best.

L'influsso della sua esistenza su quelli che le stavano attorno fu incalcolabilmente ampio: perché il bene a venire del mondo dipende in parte da azioni di portata non storica; e se le cose per voi e per me, non vanno cosí male come sarebbe stato possibile, lo dobbiamo in parte a tutti quelli che vissero con fede una vita nascosta e riposano in tombe che nessuno visita.

The conduct that issues from a moral conflict has often so close resemblance to vice that the distinction escapes all outward judgments founded on a mere comparison of actions. -Book 6, chapter 9

Em nós trazemos sempre o que fizemos, E do que fomos faz-se o nosso ser.

Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are

If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.