Word And Action Quotes

#1. When you interact with people who are insecure, you must watch your every word and action you take. Secure people give you the freedom to make innocent mistakes.

Assegid Habtewold

#2. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.

Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo

#3. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.

John Bruna

#4. It is not a question of filling oneself from the outside in, but of recovering that energy, that inner strength, aligning consciousness with decision, word and action. It is question of aligning reason and intuition, mind and heart.

Miriam Subirana

#5. In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Zoroaster

#7. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Rumi

#8. Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#9. True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#10. So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

Marlo Morgan

#11. Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form, - for the mind is like the body.

John Henry Newman

#12. Hearing the Word gives birth to faith, which in turn causes action that will bring about a change and transformation of our circumstances.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

Joy Kogawa

#14. And what do you like about this word, brave?" "I like that it's derived from a verb," El answers. "Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do. It comes from action. I appreciate that.

Cynthia Hand

#15. Faith is active and action word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

Gloria Steinem

#17. There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

Cesar Millan

#18. When we live with Integrity every word, thought and action springs from the Intelligence of the Heart and flows in harmony, enlightened by the pure light of Consciousness.

Human Angels

#19. A healthy faith is one that has aligned in word, thought, and action.

Michael Gungor

#20. Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

Phil Boyer

#21. One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Earl Nightingale

#22. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

Dan Abnett

#23. Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!

Kenneth E. Hagin

#24. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.

John Locke

#25. To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. - BELL HOOKS1

Brene Brown

#26. Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action ... we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!

Timothy Pina

#27. Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.

Colin M. Morris

#28. Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.

Aisha Mirza

#29. Must every action - every word and thought - recall Alena? Swimming, currents, beaches, exhibitions, artists, parties. How long until my bodily presence had half the substance her absence did?

Rachel Pastan

#30. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Ziggy Marley

#31. And yet, on balance, affirmative action has, I think, been a qualified success." A 13-word sentence with five hedging words. I give it first prize as the most wishy-washy sentence in modern public discourse,

William Zinsser

#32. Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

Bill Gross

#33. Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Bob Keeshan

#34. Haven't you seen and heard that every word I seed for you is a feeling, and every thought I bloom bears a meaning?
Rivers of words, blending together for the same course, the action of my being:
my universe, your beauty.

Soar

#35. The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

Karen Joy Fowler

#36. In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Epictetus

#37. Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Anonymous

#38. Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is in this sense always rational and mindful of utility. It is, in a word, human.

Ludwig Von Mises

#39. Love in action puts a mind at ease. It creates wonders and good feelings. Such is the magic word that when you allow it to flow freely, it awakens every human heart, and uplifts every human spirit.

Rita Barnes

#40. But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Samuel Alexander

#41. Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in.

Mac MacKenzie

#42. Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.

Steve Maraboli

#43. When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.

Matthew Donnelly

#44. Connect with positive people who will stand in faith with you and lift you up in prayer. Study the Word of God and put your faith in action, for the Bible declares, "Faith without deeds is dead" (James 2:26)

Jocelyn Green

#45. Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

William Shatner

#46. For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

Seth

#47. Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

Nhat Hanh

#48. The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

George Eliot

#50. Every action in this world, every word, every thought, has an effect. But the actor is also acted upon by his action. The condition on which you are allowed to make a change in the world is that the world changes you as well.

Yael Shahar

#51. When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

Boris Becker

#52. Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#53. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#54. God's word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.

Steve Maraboli

#55. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

Suzy Kassem

#56. Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.

Marianne Williamson

#57. P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.

Paulo Freire

#58. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

David Bohm

#60. The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

Victoria Moran

#61. There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.

Suzy Kassem

#62. Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.

Bill Dedman

#63. Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

Steve Maraboli

#64. I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

Robert Rauschenberg

#65. Love is the gift. You cannot go and look for the gift by yourself. That action is contrary to the definition of the word gift. Therefore, single ladies should wait to be chosen and to receive love as a gift.

Khuliso Mamathoni

#66. Everything is practice. Every word you write and action you take is a chance to get better.

Jeff Goins

#67. Hurrying back into the rouge lighting in sheer terror, Amelia ran without another word, escaping into the shadows of the dungeon, and she shrieked for salvation that never came.

Shelique Lize

#68. Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.

Raneem Kayyali

#69. You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#70. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#71. It also becomes apparent that our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves but for all others, too. Furthermore,

Dalai Lama XIV

#72. You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.

Julie Bertagna

#73. All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!

Samuel Colbran

#74. The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Tom Wujec

#75. TRY TO LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AT HOME BEFORE BED. DID I DO EVERYTHING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TODAY? WAS I HONEST ABOUT EVERY ACTION AND WORD SPOKEN TODAY? REALLY? WHO YOU LYIN' TO? YOURSELF? THAT'S PRETTY LAME. I'LL TRY HARDER TOMORROW. JUST DON'T USE! DON'T. USE.

Duff McKagan

#76. God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

Jared Brock

#77. Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

Gabrielle Giffords

#78. [We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Simone Weil

#79. I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

Paul Weller

#80. Thought is the first level of creation. Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and sends forth creative energy into the universe. Words are the second level of creation. Next comes action.

Neale Donald Walsch

#81. The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

Tracy Letts

#82. Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

Israelmore Ayivor

#83. Regret doesn't make sense to me. I have none. Because I realize that what I do at any given moment, is my decision to make, already accepting either benefit or consequence of that action. So, regret is a useless word, and knowledge is the result.

Gypsie M. Holley

#84. The Bible does not say that God speaks and then proceeds to act, that he names and then proceeds to shape - but that God's speaking and acting are the same thing. His word is his action, his divine power.

Timothy Keller

#85. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

#86. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#87. The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

Nhat Hanh