Quotes About Actions

By their fruits ye shall know them.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Service isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.

The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.

You cannot understand a man's actions unless you understand his beliefs.

I would do anything for you. Anything. With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words.

With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words.

There were so many different ways to say "I love you." As Peyton went back over to Novo and pulled her against him once more, he reflected that those three words were certainly the most common transmission of the sacred emotion between two souls. But there were other ways. Gestures, gifts, the rebuilding of a barn after a fire, the shoveling of a walkway, even something as simple as carrying groceries in from the car. Novo was telling him she loved him by sharing this terrible truth

There were so many way that people said I love you. And sometimes, they did it without speaking a word.

We saw both of these things six times each during the night. We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

If we ramp up capabilities in China, including additional 737-related work, the actions that we'll take are actions that ultimately allow us to grow jobs in the U.S.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

That the Islamic State is guilty of horrific atrocities is common knowledge. But most Americans seem unaware of the human toll of our own actions, the consequences this has for our national security and our reputation, and that, too often, the civilian casualties we cause are the result of avoidable mistakes. This must change.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.