Actions Quotes

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.