"Though men pride themselves on their great actions,……" — François De La Rochefoucauld

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• 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… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius
• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — 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… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,… — Ezra Taft Benson

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