Top 100 Actions Do Quotes
#1. At the very heart of this book is my desire to make our voices heard. To act out of compassion and then watch as our actions do make a difference.
Tom Davis
#2. There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
Matthieu Ricard
#3. Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
Oscar Wilde
#4. It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.
Richard Stolley
#5. The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.
Seth Godin
#6. There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
Moliere
#10. In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.
Ahmed Kathrada
#11. Actions do not need to be changed; just change your vision.
Dada Bhagwan
#12. We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. Only through our positive thinking and actions do we become strong. Even the weakest person in the world can become the strongest in their own mind.
David Estes
#14. Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#15. Actions do not betray, but language is filled with the danger of betrayal at any instant. This quality is what makes language both infinitely beautiful and infinitely frightening.
Enchi Fumiko
#17. People can accuse you of anything but that isn't who you are. It means nothing. Accusations don't make a person, actions do. Make sure your actions show the real you to the world.
Shelley K. Wall
#18. Only when something becomes a problem for "me" as one of my goal orientated actions, do I pause in full stride, as it were, in order to learn the competencies that I lack.
Klaus Holzkamp
#19. Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does.
Dan Millman
#20. There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!
Fela Durotoye
#21. Actions do not always speak louder than words.
Henry Pepper
#22. I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.
Richard G. Scott
#23. Urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At
Dan Millman
#25. Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.
Rama Swami
#26. Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.
Neel Burton
#27. Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
Robert Kiyosaki
#28. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#29. It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#30. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to experience true success. Don't just wish, DO! Don't just dream, BE! Let today be the day you create a plan and follow it.
Steve Maraboli
#31. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.
James Altucher
#33. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#34. It is never too late or too early; you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist
Albert Bandura
#36. Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
Neal A. Maxwell
#37. The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.
Tom Robbins
#38. What are you waiting for tomorrow to do? To get done? To achieve? To start? Where your good intentions are disconnecting from the actions you should do for the things you desire?
Tony Curl
#39. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
John Lubbock
#40. The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions
Sunday Adelaja
#41. To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Kevin Heath
#42. Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
Walt Disney
#43. Life is programmable, it simply waits for you to do something, good or bad, and it returns to you what you've asked for through your actions... choose to do what is right.
C.A. Hartway
#44. Your job is to try to determine what the people in your life are trying to teach you. You'll find that if you do this, you'll be far less annoyed, bothered, and frustrated by the actions and imperfections of other people.
Richard Carlson
#45. Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.
Lysa TerKeurst
#46. Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
Seth Godin
#47. Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.
Marie Kondo
#48. What we have to realize is that we are part of the crisis, and we are determining the outcome; our actions, at a personal level as well as a planetary level, are part of the solution. If we do nothing then disaster could be the final outcome.
Ernesto Ortiz
#49. Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
Sivananda
#50. Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
Dale Carnegie
#51. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
Carlos Wallace
#52. Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#53. What do people who don't drink do on such occasions? Face the facts perhaps. But facing a fact is one thing, and overcoming it is another. Cognac was going to overcome the facts: overcome Edna's willed hardness and overcome my lack of suitable words and actions.
Waguih Ghali
#54. To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?
Niccolo Machiavelli
#55. In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
Doc Hastings
#56. Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.
Tony Robbins
#57. You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.
Claudia Rankine
#58. Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.
Neale Donald Walsch
#59. Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions,
Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them.
Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'
Is the self-confidence of action.
Shantideva
#60. We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
Confucius
#61. Because all actions and expressions
stem from the mind, it is vital to know the
mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what
about psychosomatic wellness?
H.E. Davey
#62. Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead!
Oswald Bayer
#63. Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
John Le Carre
#64. One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.
Ralph Marston
#65. I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
Kathleen Turner
#66. In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
Yehuda Berg
#67. Our people believe in God, don't they? And they also do secretive acts, don't they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.
Dada Bhagwan
#68. I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America they are not who were they are not what we do and they will be prosecuted, so I want that message to be clear also.
Loretta Lynch
#69. First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set of actions would explain the meaning of his death in a way that nothing else
no theories, no clever ideas
could ever do.
N. T. Wright
#70. Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.
James MacDonald
#71. The answer is simple: You are you, the person who will live with the consequences of what you do. No one else can be responsible, because no one else will experience the consequences of your actions as you will.
Harry Browne
#72. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.
Gudjon Bergmann
#73. I was just asked to go somewhere. I said, "I can't. I have to stay home. Gayle's sick." Clearly, I was not accepting responsibility for my actions. Next time I want to be more honest and state that I do what I do because I want to do it.
Hugh Prather
#74. I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another
P.D. Ouspensky
#75. I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.
Jean Cocteau
#76. What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
Jo Nesbo
#77. Only crazy people don't do anything new and they expecting new result.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. The key to this paradox lies within you, in the feeling you carry that each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles, has cosmic significance. You will know then, as you know now, that everything you do matters.
Charles Eisenstein
#79. [Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.
Vincent De Paul
#80. The brain says "it is impossible" and the legs respond "let's sit down". The brain says "it is possible" and the legs respond "let's go to work". Don't blame the legs, blame the head.
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others.
Robin Sacredfire
#82. He is a curious avatar. Passion and pain, made manifest. The dreams he had are gone. All that is left is this unflinching need to prove the world false. Does he truly understand his own actions? Or does he merely flail about as marionettes do without skilled hands to guide them?
Grant Smuts
#83. Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one
and then we do too little.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. it is a fine line indeed between asking why our Creator does what He does and calling His wisdom into question because we do not understand - or agree with - His actions.
Anonymous
#85. I'm still here, Ash. I can justify and explain my actions, but Maca's not and I'll never do that to him.
Lesley Jones
#86. The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.
T Jay Taylor
#87. Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.
Joanna Baillie
#88. We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
Andrew McCutchen
#89. Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one's inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one's daily actions.
Bill Jensen
#90. The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do
George Akomas Jr
#91. There is only one question: Does what you do, every day, have meaning? Acaelus had thought his actions did, once. For centuries, he'd put his faith in Jorsin Alkestes. A long dead king. A madman who'd sworn he would return. Even from death. A madman who'd left madness everywhere in his wake.
Brent Weeks
#92. A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
Mark Twain
#93. People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
Paul Ekman
#94. Wear it, Eragon. If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.
Christopher Paolini
#95. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
Stephen Covey
#96. Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. God's love is perfectly free. It is not coerced by any of our good actions, nor can we lose it because of our bad actions. We are stuck with it and cannot increase-or decrease-God's love for us by anything we do or don't do.
Richard Rohr
#98. We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.
Orson Scott Card
#99. Success will come just as a mere wish when cars begin to manufacture and drive themselves. Believe it or not, "nothing comes out if nothing goes in"!
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
Debasish Mridha
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