Quotes with actions

Quotes 101 till 120 of 191.

  • Carlo Goldoni Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
    Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6
    Carlo Goldoni
    Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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  • Barbara Deming Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Alexander Pope Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • John Selden Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • John Butler Yeats Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • James Shirley Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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  • Red Skelton Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
    Red Skelton
    American actor and comedian (1913 - 1997)
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  • Charles A. Garfield Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Tryon Edwards Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Walter Bagehot Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • A. W. Tozer Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ''accepting'' and ''willing'' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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