Quotes About Actions

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

Handsome is as handsome does

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ?religion? mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment (...) This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not the essence itself.

Stupidities that succeed are still stupidities.

the fact of not being understood by others had been my sole source of pride since my early youth, and I had not the slightest impulse to express myself in such a way that I might be understood. When I did try to clarify my thoughts and actions, I did so with no consideration whatsoever. I do not know whether or not this was because I wanted to understand myself. Such a motive is in accord with a person's real character and comes automatically to form a bridge between himself and others

Shunsuké hated the preoccupation with modern psychology that judged his casual, offhand remarks or his daily actions as betraying his identity or ideas with better clarity than did his highly polished sentences.

I dream of a moment when, without my asking, my actions will betray completely this part of me that asks for nothing