Actions Quotes
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.
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We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
