Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I told him that my own was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. "
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Think like a man of action and act a man of thought.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
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