Actions Quotes
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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 return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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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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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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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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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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This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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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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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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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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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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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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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, 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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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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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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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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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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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
