Good Actions Quotes - Page 4

• I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Thinking, Next, Would Be

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.171, Oxford University Press

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• We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Discovery, Atheism, Action

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.292

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• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Appreciation, Action, Pleasure

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• A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Humility, Puff, Use

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  Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

  Abu Bakr

  Adversity, Blow, Action

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• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Needs, Treasure, Doers

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• If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

  Justin Cronin

  Moving, Writing, Use

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• I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Positive, People, Action

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

  Michael Korda

  Action, Moments, Eternity

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