Quotes About Actions

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.

The objects the imitator represents are actions.

The eighth and last is for small actions, from one to five drachma's, or a little more; for these ought also to be legally determined, but not to be brought before the whole body of the judges.

Hence the young man is not a fit student of Moral Philosophy, for he has no experience in the actions of life, while all that is said presupposes and is concerned with these: and in the next place, since he is apt to follow the impulses of his passions, he will hear as though he heard not, and to no profit, the end in view being practice and not mere knowledge.

IX Now that Moral Virtue is a mean state, and how it is so, and that it lies between two faulty states, one in the way of excess and another in the way of defect, and that it is so because it has an aptitude to aim at the mean both in feelings and actions, all this has been set forth fully and sufficiently.

But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.

there appears to be a certain difference among the ends: some ends are activities, others are certain works apart from the activities themselves, and in those cases in which there are certain ends apart from the actions, the works are naturally better than the activities.

If, therefore, there is some end of our actions that we wish for on account of itself, the rest being things we wish for on account of this end, and if we do not choose all things on account of something else—for in this way the process will go on infinitely such that the longing6 involved is empty and pointless—clearly this would be the good, that is, the best.

Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

En nuestro pasado reside nuestro futuro. Nuestras decisiones y nuestros actos condicionan ese futuro y nos traen alegría o la desgracia, Hagan lo que hagan, esfuércense por conseguir sus metas. Tal vez nunca logren su objetivo, incluso puede que este sea un espejismo, pero a lo largo del camino encontrarán gente que se convertirá en piezas importantes de sus vidas y crearán recuerdos que les ayudarán a seguir adelante en los tiempos difíciles. (Tory)

And it was then, watching him eat before me, that I realised there was inconsistency in him. He said there was no difference between Chosen and Quelled; he said men were not more sacred than women, nor women less than men; he said we were side by side, matched in every way; he said all these things — but his life spoke differently. He still ate before me, first, as my lord. And in that simple act, he undid all his words.

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;

Sing before breakfast you'll cry 'before night

thanks to the discrepancies between people's thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses.

I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.

No siento yo amor por la que sólo con palabras ama. [...] No mueras tú conmigo ni hagas tuyo un acto en el que no pusiste tu mano.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Bloodlines and last names didn't make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were.

One dies the way he lives.

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.