Action Quotes

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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on… — Albert Einstein
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to… — Samuel Johnson
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under… — George Washington
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is… — Charles Grandison Finney
Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some… — Abraham Lincoln
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our… — Joseph Story
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity… — Calvin Coolidge
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the… — Abraham Lincoln
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Unknown Author
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it… — Herman Melville
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to… — Rhonda Byrne
When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly… — Tejomayananda
I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my… — Unknown Author
The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world,… — Keanu Reeves
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather… — Joseph McCarthy
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. — Washington Irving
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that… — Oscar Wilde
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I… — Jimmy Carter
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and… — Samuel Johnson

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