Action Quote by Albert Camus

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of…

— Plutarch

“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for…

— Jasper Fforde

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

— Stephen Mitchell

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

— Thomas Jefferson

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

— Anonymous

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong,…

— Robert Southey

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be…

— Susanne Bier

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

— Aristotle

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation…

— Joseph Hall

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of…

— Plato

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

— Sergei Lukyanenko