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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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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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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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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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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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
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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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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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Each is responsible for his own 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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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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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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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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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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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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I never acted out with my actions to show people that I'm getting grown, you never see me with a cigarette, or see me wilding out or doing anything like that.
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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
