All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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

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

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.