Actions Quotes
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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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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 return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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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, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
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Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
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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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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
