Actions

• We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. -Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to John Adams, 1774
• I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. - Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
• Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells
• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
• You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. - Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. - Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
• You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. - Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
• Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. - Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
• Strong reasons make strong actions. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)