Top 100 Quotes About Actions
#1. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.
Zig Ziglar
#3. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.
Ezra Taft Benson
#4. The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
T. K. V. Desikachar
#5. But however imperfect, even repugnant, were particular policies, particular actions, there remained the purity of the ideal, represented in the theories of Karl Marx and the noble visions of many lesser thinkers and writers.
Howard Zinn
#6. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. - E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Zadie Smith
#7. The reactions of the many should not affect the actions of the few.
Joey Lawsin
#8. Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.
Jon Gordon
#10. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#11. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Andrew Denton
#12. If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.
T. B. Joshua
#13. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#14. Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
Tryon Edwards
#15. Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
Bob Goff
#16. Like so many other pathological personalities in positions of power a million years ago, he might do almost anything on impulse, feeling nothing much. The logical explanations for his actions, invented at leisure, always came afterwards.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#18. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.
Dan Groat
#19. Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
John Ortberg
#20. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#21. We are turning our grief into winnable actions.
Mark Ruffalo
#22. Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#23. I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.
Tahereh Mafi
#24. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#25. The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#26. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#27. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Miguel De Cervantes
#28. this book itself is not a book on what people at the top do or should do. It is addressed to everyone who, as a knowledge worker, is responsible for actions and decisions which are meant to contribute to the performance capacity of his organization.
Peter F. Drucker
#29. No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation
need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.
Salman Ahmad
#30. actions are no more than dreams
Osho
#32. I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.
Agatha Christie
#33. Emotions generally led to irrational and stupid actions. In this game, they were likely to be fatal. He regained his composure and became logical, rational, disconnected.
Roger Weston
#34. Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. The destiny of your nation is in your hands, waiting for your actions.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Turning your heart's desires into actions is what counts most.
Steven Redhead
#37. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Robin Hobb
#38. But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
Alexandre Dumas
#39. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
#40. None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
Lena Dunham
#41. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura
#42. The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.
Debasish Mridha
#43. If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#44. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
Dalai Lama XIV
#45. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#46. You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
Vernon Howard
#47. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#48. Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth ... Architecture aims at Eternity.
Christopher Wren
#49. Good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.
Donna Tartt
#51. You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul
#52. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard De Mandeville
#53. We would none of us get much done if we allowed such things to rule our actions.
Christine Pope
#54. All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge 'Knows' it too.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
Gary Keller
#56. Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#57. I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
Robert Breault
#58. Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it's only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.
Ban Ki-moon
#60. Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
Frank Harris
#61. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.
Mother Teresa
#62. Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
Stephen R. Covey
#64. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Isabel Allende
#65. It is a sweet thing to have someone love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
#67. Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.
Erin Gruwell
#68. You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's hurtful actions.
Henry Cloud
#69. Scripture repeatedly recounts the intentional actions of the providential God. The
Bruce R. Reichenbach
#70. Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#71. 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
#72. Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
Stephen Kinzer
#73. Let your feelings dream, dreams act, actions speak.
Vikrmn
#74. Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#75. The actions driven by fear and guilt are not an antidote to lukewarm, selfish, comfortable living. I hope you realize that the answer is love.
Francis Chan
#76. I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#77. Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?
Guy Pearce
#78. Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.
Carol Browner
#79. Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Penn Jillette
#80. There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.
Charles Yu
#81. No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
John Ruskin
#82. I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.
Dash Mihok
#83. For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
Alan Watts
#84. Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.
Dalai Lama
#85. The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.
Thomas Streicher
#86. Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.
Erich Fromm
#87. You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance ... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.
Steve Maraboli
#88. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#89. Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Joseph Hall
#90. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.
Michel De Montaigne
#92. Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind ...
Porphyry
#93. All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.
Arthur W. Pink
#94. Any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.
William Goldman
#95. By their actions, they will show you who they are.
Leah Remini
#96. Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
#97. By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.
Jens Stoltenberg
#98. You are what you desire.
You may live with desires and determine all that you want;
But your actions determine what and how much you receive.
Gian Kumar
#99. Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.
Og Mandino
#100. My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.
Avery Williams
