Quotes About Actions

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Seems to me there are a million examples of how nice or how cruel people act every moment of every day.

Love can do all things. The most impossible tasks seem to it easy and sweet. You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. What, then, have we to fear?

It would not disturb me if (supposing the impossible) God himself did not see my good actions. I love him so much, that I would like to give him joy without his knowing who gave it. When he does know, he is, as it were, obliged to make a return.

Self-confidence, as it is generally understood, implies arrogant presumption; humility implies being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

9 Romans 8:15-16 describes what is true of us if the Spirit lives in us and leads us. Think of what this can mean for your life. What attitudes and actions would you have if you seriously considered God your Abba? (Take a look at this passage in The Message for another way to think about it.)

Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others lead to false judgment.

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open

We are nothing if we are not the sum total of our physique and the history of the actions of our physique--that we carry with us in body and in memory. (Body - Michael McClure)

Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

But, Sire, the curse which shall ruin you eventually is the selfsame which ruins all men, irrespective of their actions good or evil, and that is Time, which is the issue of an incestuous act performed by God on reality.

The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were parents of their thoughts:

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

You have to think about the consequences of actions, and if they're negative, that shouldn't be your choice.

If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.

las acciones —no los pensamientos ni las intenciones— eran la verdadera forma de juzgar a los demás

People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

If Jamie had taught me anything over these last few months, she'd shown me that actions—not thoughts or intentions—were the way to judge others.

Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Los momentos clave, combinados con decisiones y acciones conscientes, y con una buena dosis de esperanza, pueden arrastrarte a un futuro que parece predestinado.