Quotes About Actions

I understand now why Barrons was always insisting I stop asking him questions and judge him by his actions alone. It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.

I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. <...> I may have been forced into this war, but I'm learning to choose my battles.<...> People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså medlet funnet.

A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

And as you begin seeing and feeling results you will have a greater appreciation for how extremely important your feelings, your thoughts, your words and your actions are to your well Be-ing. Your feelings and thoughts can bring you peace and joy or misery and unhappiness. And the beautiful part is . . . the choice is yours.

There are the choices that we make and the consequences, that's all.

This kind of herd behaviour can be highly contagious and highly uncertain. And it explains the unpredictability not only of the next chart-topping song but also of next summer's fashion craze—not to mention the 'animal spirits' driving boom and bust in stock markets—revealing the strength of social networks in shaping our preferences, purchases and actions.

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.

Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

All this teaching given in fragments must be pieced together, and observations and actions must be connected to it. If there is no paste, nothing will stick.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when the universe deems it appropriate and it may not be in this lifetime or the next, or the one after that.... but it will come.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Seek reality and base all your decisions and actions upon it.

Begin early with meditation and prayer for spiritual energy; starting the day by connecting with your higher purpose aligns your thoughts and actions with a larger story.

Extraordinary results are rarely happenstance. They come from the choices we make and the actions we take.

Low goals don't require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results.