His Actions Quotes
140 quotes by 121 authors
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
— Albert Camus
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what…
— Carlos Castaneda
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be…
— H. Burke Peterson
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A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
— George Washington
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
— Winston Churchill
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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
— Umar
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by…
— Robert M. Lindner
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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…
— Leonard Bloomfield
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and…
— Vaclav Havel
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Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out…
— Tupac Shakur
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That…
— Newt Gingrich
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Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or…
— Socrates
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been…
— Baron d'Holbach
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not…
— Nikola Tesla
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