Quotes About Actions

With Love and Actions there will be Happiness.

If the child of the alcoholic, not unlike the alcoholic, is ever to mature, there must be accountability. Part of having a strong sense of self is to be accountable for one's actions. No matter how much we explore motives or lack of motives, we are what we do. We take credit for the good and we must take credit for the bad. The key is to take responsibility for all of our behavior.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

don't judge a man by the color of his skin,but by his actinos

Just as a man is seduced through his eyes, women are often seduced through their ears. Some guys can be so smooth with their words that a woman will forget his actions.

Uno olvida el daño que causa infinitamente más que el que se le inflige, uno olvida cuanto dice y hace y escribe, rara vez lo que oye y lee y padece.

People align their actions with implicit incentives, not official rhetoric.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as your needs and what matters to you in life -- and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you. You can use this as a criterion to find out how deeply you know yourself. What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you. So you may want to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me?

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.

My principles enable me to form my judgment upon men and actions in history, just as they do in common life, and are not formed out of events and characters, either present or past. History is a preceptor of prudence, not of principles. The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged; and I neither now do, nor ever will, admit of any other.

Those who in the practice of virtue prefer great or singular actions, because they appear more shining, whatever pretexts of a more heroic virtue, or of greater utility to others they allege, are the dupes of a secret pride, and follow the corrupt inclinations of their own heart, while they affect the language of the saints

It requires a strong sense of responsibility to be a good functionary. In situations involving obedience to authority, people carry out orders partly to honor the obligations they have undertaken. One must, therefore, distinguish between two levels of responsibility—duty to one's superiors, and accountability for the effects of one's actions.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

These decrees were like bullets from a musket that have missed their target and end up on the ground, where they don't threaten anyone. But that was a consequence of the great ease with which those decrees were issued. A man's actions are limited, especially when orders outstrip his ability to carry them out. For what enters the sleeve might not fit through the cuffs. —

Social justice is collective injustice. Actual justice is administered to individuals on the basis of their actions. Social justice is retributive punishment meted out by one party upon another group to enact vengeance and express a nurtured grievance.

The pride of states, as well as of men, naturally disposes them to justify all their actions, and opposes their acknowledging, correcting, or repairing their errors and offenses.

The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.