Quotes about Actions
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
— Barack Obama
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
— Brennan Manning
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
— Lao Tzu
More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
For more than a century of slavery and another century of segregation Negroes did not find mass unity nor could they mount mass actions. The American brand of servitude tore them apart and held them in paralyzed solitude.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
— Audre Lorde
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
— Aung San Suu Kyi