Annie Besant Quotes

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Action is character.

Character is long-standing habit.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.