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Quotes About Actions

You preach a better sermon with your life than you do with your lips.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, despite what has been said to the contrary, actions don't quite speak as loud as the written expression of bearing one's soul. I think that this is the key to whether some emotion is ever truly appreciated or whether it is forever trapped in an existential vacuum inside of us.
~ Unknown
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in you life and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
~ Unknown
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.
~ Unknown
Don't blame me if someone makes an effort to be there for me when you are nowhere to be found. Actions tell the real story...words just describe a version of it.
~ Unknown
I trusted you but now your words mean nothing to me, because your actions spoke the truth.
~ Unknown
You should trust people by their actions, not by what is spoken out of them. Because, a person may have a heart of gold, but then again...so does an egg.
~ Unknown
Anybody can give their opinion about you, but only your actions determine who you really are. Take a good look at your reflection if you don't like what you see change it.
~ Unknown
Love?" she had once replied to a pretentious lady who had asked for her views on love, "I make it often but I never talk about it." When
~ Marcel Proust
At least chemists can turn to analysis; sufferers from an unknown disease can call in a doctor. And criminal cases are more or less clarified by the examining magistrate. But the disconcerting actions of our fellow-men rarely reveal their motives.
~ Marcel Proust
A stranger leaves us indifferent, and indifference does not prompt us to unkind actions.
~ Marcel Proust
But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said it in the most courteous fashion imaginable, to be loved, admired, but not to be believed; that one should discern the fictitious character of this affability was what they called being well-bred; to suppose it to be genuine, a sign of ill-breeding.
~ Marcel Proust
But when it comes to the disconcerting actions of our fellow-men, we rarely discover their motives.
~ Marcel Proust
It is not for nothing," he now assured himself, "that when people pass judgment upon their neighbour, their finding is based upon his actions. It is those alone that are significant, and not at all what we say or what we think.
~ Marcel Proust
Quoting Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court stated that the First Amendment requires "'that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.'" Thus, "Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order.
~ Unknown
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
~ Margaret Chan
Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.
~ Unknown
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
~ Marianne Williamson
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
~ Kenneth L. Woodward
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.
~ Karen Salmansohn
The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.
~ Unknown