Top 100 Quotes About Actions
#1. It's more than words & somehow more than actions could ever show. It's hard to explicate this feeling I have for you, but it's one I could live out the rest of my days trying to make you understand.
David Reeves
#3. My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.
Stefne Miller
#4. Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
#5. My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#6. Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.
David Michie
#7. anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.
Karen Traviss
#8. You can change someone by your actions, not by your words
Sid
#9. Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Hanna Rosin
#10. Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Ezra Taft Benson
#11. My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.
Leah Remini
#12. Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.
Jim Rohn
#13. JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances ... the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
Ambrose Bierce
#14. Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering - God indwells us - and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.
Jared Brock
#15. If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.
Mike Vallely
#17. Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
Gautama Buddha
#18. I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.
Brigham Young
#19. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
#20. The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
Tanya R. Liverman
#21. Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.
Dieter Zetsche
#22. The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein
#23. Dreams are the inner perceptions and realizations that require goal oriented actions and persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#24. The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
#25. Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.
Linda Alfiori
#27. Accountability is the natural product of agency and is the basis of the plan of life. We are responsible for our own actions and accountable to God for what we choose to do with our lives. Life is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to him.
Elaine Cannon
#28. Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
#29. One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.
Saul Bellow
#30. Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.
Donna Farhi
#31. 409. - We should often be ashamed of our very best actions if the world only saw the motives which caused them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. Where do you draw the line between actions carried out due to an internal need and actions that were nothing more than a slim version of one ceremony or another that help us define our emotions?
Yoav Blum
#34. What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#35. Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo
#36. She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
Candace Bushnell
#37. If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
Aristotle.
#38. How can we expect to heal the world if we do not first heal ourselves? Society is a reflection of our actions and our behavior, which would explain why our violent and destructive nature correlates with a violent and destructive society.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#39. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.
Joanna Macy
#40. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Francis Jeffrey
#41. Haphazard actions don't bring results!
Lorii Myers
#42. Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#43. Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. 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
#45. Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
John Denham
#46. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.
Brene Brown
#47. Grant me Love implies
not desire but
Commitment
Commitment accepts Challenge
Challenge embraces Theory
And you and I will get Reason: A way to explore
past actions
and
future dreams
Nikki Giovanni
#48. There is power in the pressure of dissatisfaction, in the tension of temporary discomfort. This is the kind of pain you want in your life, the kind of pain that you immediately transform into positive new actions.
Anthony Robbins
#50. I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions - actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.
Jaggi Vasudev
#51. We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.
Barack Obama
#52. Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
Frank Herbert
#53. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle.
#54. Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.
Epictetus
#55. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Denis Waitley
#56. Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.
Ray Dalio
#57. Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.
Richard Wright
#58. 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
#59. Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.
Letty M. Russell
#60. There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.
Irene Gonzalez Frei
#61. In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the week. It brings me such happiness reading it and makes me know that, ultimately, human beings are amazing.
Rosie Fellner
#62. Our mind is our most valuable asset. It houses our thoughts, controls our feelings, and moves our actions. It's time to start focusing on our mental health.
Adam Schwartz
#63. The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions.
Confucius
#64. We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will.
Toni Sorenson
#65. This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.
Kamal Ravikant
#66. Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Do not loose hope.Start now whether you are. Accept full responsibility for your actions, and trust the Mystic Law of the Universe.
Vikram Joshi
#69. I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation
Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad
#70. We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies.
Ayn Rand
#72. That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#73. 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
#74. The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#75. We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Sonny Perdue
#76. In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
David Horowitz
#77. Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon
#78. A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
John Quincy Adams
#79. He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.
Alan Sillitoe
#80. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#81. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.
John Patrick Hickey
#82. The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#83. A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks
#84. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Iris Murdoch
#85. I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
Walt Whitman
#86. Character is not something one wears on their sleeve, shoulder or badge on their chest. It resides in the core of ones being and his displayed by actions and words.
John Paul Warren
#87. Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
H. Jay Dinshah
#88. Speech is the image of actions
Hope Solo
#89. You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.
Ed Foreman
#90. The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
Carl Schmitt
#91. Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr
#92. Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.
Phyllis Chesler
#93. I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
Cameron Dokey
#94. Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused?
Lucretius
#95. There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
Greta Garbo
#96. An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and then increasing commitment to and engagement in anti-racism actions
Louise Derman-Sparks
#97. People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
Amy Dickinson
#98. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else.
Henry Cloud
#99. He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Jose Rodriguez
