Top 100 Actions Are Quotes
#1. Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.
Mikhail Lomonosov
#3. There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
William Harvey
#4. Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#5. Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
Anton Chekhov
#6. Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions.
M.F. Moonzajer
#7. Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.
Harry Truman
#8. Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.
Jo Nesbo
#10. It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise ... and actions are the ONLY things that speak.
Steve Maraboli
#11. Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#12. Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.
Pope Francis
#13. We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
John Powell
#14. If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.
Gary Zukav
#15. Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#16. Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with
Dallas Willard
#17. Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action.
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#18. Actions are always far easier than words.
Sara Raasch
#19. Try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#20. Least effort is expended when our actions are motivated by love, because nature is held together by the energy of love.
Deepak Chopra
#22. Clarity of your thoughts makes your actions precise Whenever you feel your actions are not appropriate, watch out your thoughts ...
Raj Vanjara
#23. Loyalty is standing on someone's side even if their actions are against your will.
M.F. Moonzajer
#24. The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined ...
Carroll Quigley
#25. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.
A.J. Darkholme
#27. The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction.
David McRaney
#29. Your actions are viewed by observers through prisms shaped by their own interpretations, and sometimes misinterpretations. All you can do is strive to be your best self. Let the chips fall where they may.
Cathryn Louis
#30. The most important actions are never comfortable.
Tim Ferriss
#31. Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
Martin Rees
#32. Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.
Theodor Herzl
#33. Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.
Bob Harris
#36. Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless ... - Oscar Wilde
J.J. McAvoy
#37. When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
Charlotte Lennox
#38. A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
Albert Einstein
#39. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones
#40. Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.
Deepak Chopra
#44. Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Jose Marti
#45. When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.
Michel Hazanavicius
#46. Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.
Davis Bunn
#47. Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
Gautama Buddha
#48. The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.
Steve Maraboli
#49. Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
Vinoba Bhave
#50. Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
James Ellis
#51. Actions are worth more than thousands of words.
Timi Nadela
#52. When you're on the street and, in love, you hand someone a sandwich because he or she has no food, even if you don't say a word, your actions are prophesying to the person the heart and mind of God - and that's demonstration of love.
Shawn Gabie
#53. A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
Nils John Nilsson
#54. Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.
Denis Waitley
#55. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
Ayn Rand
#56. You are the pilot of your destiny. Your actions are the plane.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. we each have resonant frequencies that we respond to naturally, and when we encounter them in others, their words or actions are amplified in us and we begin to resonate with the other person.
Todd Henry
#59. Other people's actions are the result of their own pain and not the result of any intention to hurt you.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#60. Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.
Chris Matakas
#62. It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry Fielding
#63. How right you are." She shivered. "Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare the advantages of various ultramodern bugs ... I don't know how they can stand it.
John Brunner
#64. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J.K. Rowling
#66. When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Honore De Balzac
#67. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.
Irvin D. Yalom
#68. If you're worried about pervs breaking into the house, it's not going to make a difference whether I'm in this outfit or in baggy jeans and a sweatshirt. Either they're decent human beings or they're not. Their actions are on them.
Susan Ee
#69. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the there itself. There, that is writing's location and aim. But how to get there?
Karl Ove Knausgard
#70. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
#71. Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster
#72. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
George Washington
#73. Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Luc De Clapiers
#74. It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
Lisa Unger
#75. I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it.
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville
#76. In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
Frederick Lenz
#77. My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.
Jeremy Scahill
#78. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.
Jeff Olson
#79. As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.
Jon Gordon
#80. Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
Robert McKee
#81. What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
Anonymous
#82. Actions are merely an indicator of a problem contained deeper in the heart and in the beliefs of a person. Individual racism cannot be changed through legislation but through personal transformation.
David Anderson
#83. Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.
Valerie Plame
#84. Your speech is a mirror;
it reflects your mind.
Your actions are a mirror;
they reflect your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#85. Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#86. Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.
Roy H. Williams
#87. See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
Henry Ward Beecher
#88. Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
Anita Hill
#89. Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.
Jacquelyn Frank
#90. When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#91. Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.
Debasish Mridha
#92. No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone
Carl Henegan
#93. I wondered if I could get him to stop saying it if I slapped him a few times. But such logical and rewarding actions are discouraged in the workplace, even when they make perfect sense,
Jeff Lindsay
#94. Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
Harold Evans
#95. Often our thoughts, choices and actions are not aligned to reach our desired goals and we prefer to call it destiny.
Anupama Garg
#98. How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable ... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior ... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.
Steve Maraboli
#99. When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life.
Chris Matakas
#100. Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Soong May-ling
