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Actions Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
- Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.
- The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
- At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;…
- The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a…
More Actions Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson