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"Famous Quotes By Topic"
ACTIONS
Enjoy these famous quotes, and not so famous quotes, on the topic of "Actions"
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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, famous quotes
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)
TOPICS
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-A-
Ability, Acting, Actions, Ambition
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-B-
Belief, Birds, Business
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-C-
Cats, Caring, Change, Character, Children, Cooperation
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Decisions, Dedication, Democracy, Determination, Devotion, Dogs, Dreams
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Education, Effort, Enemies, Excellence
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Failure, Faith, Fear, Football
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Giving, Goals, God, Gratitude
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-H-
Happiness, Honesty, Hope, Humility
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-I-
Ideas, Imagination, Integrity, Intelligence
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-J-
Jealousy, Joy
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-K-
Kindness, Knowledge
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Laughter, Leadership, Listening, Love, Loyalty
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-M-
Marriage, Memory, Mistakes
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Nature
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Opportunity, Optimism
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-P-
Parents, Patience, Prayer, Proverbs
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-Q-
Quotes
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-R-
Relaxation, Responsibility, Risk
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-S-
Sacrifice, Security, Shakespeare, Sharing, Soul, Sports, Strength, Success
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-T-
Thank You, Tolerance, Trust
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Unity
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-V-
Victory, Vision
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-W-
Wisdom, Worry
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