“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
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Nicholas Sparks 646
American writer and novelist 1965Related quotes

Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 142

“No one should be judged by the actions of others!”
Stardom Doesn’t Change Where You’re From (April 02, 2014)

Source: Monetary Equilibrium (1939), p. 34
Context: An important distinction exists between prospective and retrospective methods of calculating economic quantities such as incomes, savings, and investments; and... a corresponding distinction of great theoretical importance must be drawn between two alternative methods of defining these quantities. Quantities defined in terms of measurements made at the end of the period in question are referred to as ex post; quantities defined in terms of action planned at the beginning of the period in question are referred to as.

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
"Technical Education" (1877)
1870s

“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”
Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 19 (in 1968 edition)