Order Quote by Milan Kundera

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Stephen Mitchell

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

— Samuel Smiles

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

— Anonymous

“an action is good when it promotes interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive; and it is bad when…

— Kaiten Nukariya

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

— Plutarch

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have always believed that acting is like special effects. If you can see the special effect, then it's a bad special effect. In…

— Arshad Warsi

It's not an act, it's just my way.

— Arthur Godfrey

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

— Joseph Campbell

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

— Ian Hacking

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

— Joseph Joubert