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Quotes About Actions

Vices are their own punishment
~ Aesop
As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
~ Chanakya
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
~ Matthieu Ricard
If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.
~ Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~ Victor Hugo
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
~ Confucius
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
~ Lisa Unger
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.
~ Sho Baraka
If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be. Karma
~ Swami Vivekananda
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
~ T. H. Huxley
Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind.
~ T. Harv Eker
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
~ T.S. Eliot
Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.
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I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.
~ Tahereh
Aldridge, c'est le temps qui lui reste à vivre. Tous les événements d'une vie sont connectés. Notre vie, à tout moment, est la somme de tous nos actes et de tous les lieux où nous nous sommes rendus. Nos décisions déterminent non seulement où notre vie prendra fin, mais aussi la personne que nous devenons en
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Karma is the seed that ripens into suffering. But karmic actions are triggered by our delusions, which themselves can be broken down into our afflictive emotions and the fundamental confusion that is the root cause.
~ Tashi Tsering
Conditioned existence refers to the pervasive way our lives, including our body and our thoughts, arise in dependence on contaminated past actions.
~ Tashi Tsering
Experts tried to explain that human decision-making was a classical rather than quantum phenomenon, so the act of making a choice didn't by itself cause new branches to split; it was quantum phenomena that generated new branches, and your choices in those branches were as meaningful as they ever were. Despite such efforts, many people became convinced that prisms nullified the moral weight of their actions.
~ Ted Chiang
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
~ Sarah Palin
Whether in the locker room, the community, or at home, our goal should not be to simply behave in a specific way. It should instead be to instill the correct values in our hearts, so that our actions will flow out unimpeded, confirming what we truly believe.
~ Benjamin Watson