Actions

Famous quotes containing the word actions:

“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.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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