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Quotes About Actions

a knowledge worker, is responsible for actions and decisions which are meant to contribute to the performance capacity of his organization. It is meant for every one of the men I call "executives.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
~ Peter Kreeft
Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff.
~ Peter Kreeft
Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.
~ Peter Kreeft
The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.
~ Peter L. Bernstein
Why are you so unhappy? Because ninety-nine percent of what you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.
~ Peter M. Senge
When our actions have consequences beyond our learning horizon, it becomes impossible to learn from direct experience.
~ Peter M. Senge
Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.
~ Philip Pullman
Or when a good character does something bad? It's probably better to think about good or bad actions rather than good or bad characters. People are complicated.
~ Philip Pullman
Everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.
~ Philip Roth
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
~ David Frawley
Según los Vedas, la sede del pensamiento, las acciones y los deseos no es la mente, sino el corazón humano.
~ David Frawley
I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that carry such a penalty. It is a man's lot, I fear, to strike out when he has suffered hurt.
~ David Gemmell
Trump burst a bubble that had protected Democrats from the consequences of their actions and opened the ranks of the Republican Party to "people of color." Trump's
~ David Horowitz
Our attitudes are important! In fact, they are more important than our actions, because they are the foundation upon which our actions are built.
~ David Jeremiah
C'mon, Paul, she says. We all know love makes you do stupid things.
~ David Levithan
Is saying 'I love you' really what defines a relationship? It's the actions, not the words.
~ David Levithan
His features are attractive, but what he does with them is not.
~ David Levithan
a lunatic, but eccentric behavior isn't proof of madness. According to the law, insanity is a disease of the mind that prevents someone from being aware of what he does and whether his actions are wrong.
~ David Morrell
We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts not breaths, in feelings not fingers on a dial. We should count time in heartthrobs; he most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ David W. Blight
Real change, eternal change, is when your actions are meant to draw you closer to your Lord. The first act of genuine turning is recognizing that what you have done on your own, what you are capable of doing, is not enough. The second act is acknowledging who you are turning toward.
~ Davis Bunn
As soon as the knowledge of the Reality has sprung up, there can be no fruits of past actions to be experienced, owing to the unreality of the body, in the same way as there can be no dream after waking.
~ Yogananda
Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but about how much you prove that it's true." —Unknown
~ Zane
I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.
~ Sue Perkins