Top 100 Quotes About Words And Actions
#1. Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today
Neale Donald Walsch
#2. Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#3. If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.
Thomas Merton
#4. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#5. Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
Bob Ehrlich
#6. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#7. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
#8. He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.
John Tillotson
#9. Please guide my words and actions so that they bring blessings to everyone involved,
Doreen Virtue
#10. Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.
Patrick Lencioni
#11. A company has integrity when its words and actions consistently match the branding effort.
Maggie Macnab
#12. Life is affected, even controlled by how thoughts are communicated in both words and actions.
Steven Redhead
#13. Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
Elizabeth Price Foley
#14. It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
Joseph Addison
#15. You don't have to be 'adults' ... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.
Natsuki Takaya
#16. Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Timothy Pickering
#17. We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Freeze your words and actions, divert your mind and laugh for a little while! That is all it takes to tame the demon called anger!
Ravi Samuel
#19. Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.
Sathya Sai Baba
#20. We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?
Steve Hagen
#21. It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
Michelle Malkin
#22. Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.
Wayne Muller
#23. 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
#24. A fault line runs down the middle of my life, and whenever it cracks open-divorcing my words and actions from the truth I hold within-things around me get shaky and start to fall apart.
Parker J. Palmer
#25. Intentions, whether good or bad, that don't reflect the words and actions are only meant to fulfill personal goals.
Ashish Patel
#26. Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be more spiritual than an officer. Spirituality is determined by personal outlook and priorities. It is evident in our words and actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
#27. If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
Nhat Hanh
#28. If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.
Peter Kropotkin
#29. I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
Pauley Perrette
#30. Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
Gregory Bateson
#31. My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.
My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.
You have no power over me.
You will not silence me.
Marina Cohen
#32. Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.
Amit Ray
#35. The only thing that completes love is a heart; words and actions come later, sometimes never.
Shikha Kaul
#36. Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.
Stephen Lovegrove
#37. Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.
Lorii Myers
#38. Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.
Robert Musil
#39. Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to be, by all its previous thoughts, words and actions, including those of the previous lives.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#40. I know that within you there is an energy of forgiveness that forgives me and sets me free. My words and actions have no power over you. You are free and I am free. All is well between our spirits. Peace is the order of the day.
Michael Bernard Beckwith
#41. What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.
Thaddeus Golas
#42. God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.
Jared Brock
#43. Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
John Milton
#44. I'm pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality in living so that your words and actions transform the world around you in ways that will continue to reverberate forever. No one with so much life in him can ever truly die.
Daniel Radosh
#45. Can a literary character be said to live a life from birth to death or otherwise to undergo a development from beginning to end? Or is a literary character-fixed on the pages of a book, trapped forever in the same few words and actions-the very opposite of a living, developing human being?
Jack Miles
#46. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
#47. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
Paul David Tripp
#48. My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail Adams
#49. What was worse than losing you was when you started to hurt me. Your words and actions made me hate coming to school. They made me uncomfortable in my own home.
Penelope Douglas
#50. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#52. The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.
Tony Robbins
#53. 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
#54. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .
Miya Yamanouchi
#55. Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.
John C. Broger
#56. Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
Myles Munroe
#57. We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,' King said,
Ken Follett
#58. All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter's ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.
David Nicholls
#59. Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
Isaac Watts
#60. When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.
Revathi Sankaran
#61. For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
Kenneth Chenault
#62. Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
Ai Weiwei
#63. Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.
Jay Crownover
#64. Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.
Doreen Virtue
#65. At the end of the day, we are Christians, not Paulinians, and so where there is conflict between the teachings of Paul and our Lord, then we should give precedence to the words and actions of Jesus.
Kevin Mahoney
#66. Nobody knows what it is like to be you, how can they? Choose your thoughts, words and actions and enjoy what is your life.
Richard Morin
#67. To be truly great and greatly true
Is to align your thoughts, words and actions in all you do
George Akomas Jr
#68. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
J.C. Ryle
#69. Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.
Preeti Shenoy
#71. Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.
Neale Donald Walsch
#72. Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart Tolle
#73. This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds
Don DeLillo
#74. INTEGRITY ... Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.
Tanya Masse
#75. There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
Jo Bonner
#76. It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.
Rhonda Byrne
#77. Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Cheryl Richardson
#78. Consistency. Clarity. Courage. I like to stand for consistency, clarity and courage in my thoughts, words, and actions.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#79. Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#80. Bricks could be used as words in the saying of a mason. When words and actions match up, you have a structure people could live in. It's a lot to live up to, and a lot to live in.
Jarod Kintz
#81. They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.
Teresa Of Avila
#82. The best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions of His people. If
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#83. I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.
Anis Mojgani
#84. Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.
A.D. Posey
#85. We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!
Paul David Tripp
#88. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.
John Patrick Hickey
#89. 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
#90. Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
Richard Baxter
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. But honestly? What women need?" Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. "Actions. Not words. Sorry doesn't mean shit, begging doesn't mean shit, and promises don't mean shit.
Priscilla Glenn
#97. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.
Tina Sequeira
#98. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
#99. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#100. We've been gifted with the power of choice ... in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.
Shawn Anderson
