“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 Sparks646
American writer and novelist 1965Related quotes
Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue
Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue
Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
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!”
Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player
Stardom Doesn’t Change Where You’re From (April 02, 2014)
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) Swedish economist
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.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
"Technical Education" (1877)
1870s
“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”
George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Chester Barnard book The Functions of the Executive
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 19 (in 1968 edition)