Actions

Famous quotes containing the word actions:

“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)