Top 100 Their Actions Quotes
#1. What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
Albert Bandura
#2. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
#3. society pays great attention to the motives of dissenters, but none to those who submit to our institutions, either by ensuring that their actions remain concealed or by using any other means. Obedience to authority is implicitly deemed the natural state. In
Glenn Greenwald
#4. People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. Don't blame others for your assumption of their actions; the best resolution is to simply ask.
A.R. Voss
#6. She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.
Marcia Muller
#7. Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.
Paul Tonko
#9. 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
#10. When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.
Susan Stryker
#11. Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.
Denis Waitley
#12. Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#13. We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
Ibn Hazm
#15. Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
Marquis De Sade
#16. I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.
James Norton
#18. Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.
Edward Kennedy
#19. What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
William Blum
#20. Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#21. Every person must face the consequences of their actions. I just pray all who are sleeping, wake up before their "consequences" affect me.
L.M. Fields
#22. Loyalty is standing on someone's side even if their actions are against your will.
M.F. Moonzajer
#23. As if their actions were synchronized, they both jumped off the swings at the same moment, Jay racing toward the laddered steps as Violet rushed to reach the bottom of the slide.
Kimberly Derting
#24. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.
Bennie Thompson
#25. To move into restoration does not mean the abusers never did anything wrong. Moving forward is also not an indicator that their actions never harmed you. What restoration does is provide the ability for survivors to bring hope back into their lives; maybe for the first time.
Shannon Thomas
#26. How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.
Richard Steele
#27. Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
Amit Kalantri
#28. Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God.
Guru Angad
#29. People often make very bad mistakes because people often don't ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.
Jody Watley
#31. I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.
Bruce Willis
#32. It is the responsiblity of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.
Michael Moore
#33. People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be ... Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#34. I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
Finn Wittrock
#35. When a person really loves you, you can feel it. I'm not talking about the way YOU feel nor the way he/she feels towards you but the way he/she treats you. From their actions, you can feel their love.
Rita Zahara
#36. A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
Navonne Johns
#37. Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?"
"They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
Karen Traviss
#38. 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
#39. One person could make such a difference in someone's life. Either good or bad. With their actions and words, a single individual had the power to save or destroy another.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.
Eric Schneiderman
#41. Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
#42. Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
Milan Kundera
#43. In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#44. The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.
Debasish Mridha
#45. One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
Dianna Hardy
#46. 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
#47. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
#48. How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean." Charlie to Beth
Lynsay Sands
#49. The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.
Hugh Ferriss
#50. 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
Lynda Barry
#51. Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
Isabel Allende
#52. I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.
Erin McKeown
#53. Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.
Simon Baron-Cohen
#54. When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn't want to accept it or make amends.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with skepticism and derision by the press because their actions and motivations failed to conform to accepted romantic and cultural ideals.
DeAnne Blanton And Lauren M. Cook
#56. Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Jo Bonner
#57. WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.
Michael Moore
#58. It's like the difference between a kid who goes to school and learns and a kid who goes to school and learns and comes home to parents who are reading to her and talking to her about the world, showing her things, teaching by their actions.
Roland Merullo
#59. 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
#60. Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!
David Pratt
#61. In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.
Peter Coleman
#62. They knew what they were doing. They had counted the cost. They had measured the risk. They were well aware what the outcome of their actions would be unless God miraculously intervened, as in fact he did.
J.I. Packer
#63. Saints and Sinners may be separated by their actions, but they are united by their reaction to passion.
Gaiven Clairmont
#64. When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool.
Auliq Ice
#65. I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
Joe Perry
#66. Never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good. - perfect Summer
Luanne Rice
#67. I think some people don't want to believe in God because it means they have to answer for their actions.
Renee Ryan
#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. We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
Jayce O'Neal
#70. Ginger: "Ey, woman. If you characterise people on their actions rather than what they say, then it is easy not to be fooled by whatever logic they attempt to spout.
Michael Rogers
#71. Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil. Power is a game - this cannot be repeated too often - and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions.
Robert Greene
#72. Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Havelock Ellis
#73. Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
Jaron Lanier
#74. Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,
be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!
Johann Gaudenz Von Salis-Seewis
#75. Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Francis Bacon
#76. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.
Walpola Rahula
#77. I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
Ann Radcliffe
#78. The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.
Cat Osterman
#79. All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
Jeremy Taylor
#80. It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Aristotle.
#81. Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.
Huston Smith
#82. Isabel!'
The second time James called her name, realization came crashing down around her. She became acutely aware of their location, their situation, their *actions*, and she was overcome with an intense desire to escape back out the window to the roof. And to live there. For some time.
Sarah MacLean
#83. Behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they?
Michel Faber
#84. Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.
Marcus Aurelius
#85. Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger
#86. There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral, and more apt to form stereotypical views of outsiders.
Richard Wiseman
#88. What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.
Emil Cioran
#89. 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
#90. Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.
Shon Mehta
#91. The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.
Dov Seidman
#92. People are responsible for their actions, but not the fruits of their actions. Always do what you think is right, but don't worry if good does not always come from what you do.
Christopher Pike
#93. I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.
Richard Ramirez
#94. People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
Amy Dickinson
#95. 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
#96. The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions.
Confucius
#97. Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.
Richard Wright
#98. Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.
Thomas Sowell
#99. We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#100. Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.
Robert Greene
