Quotes About Actions

Böse Absichten reisen nicht so weit wie gute. (S.37, Leuchtturmwärter)

Meaning and authority always go hand in hand. Whoever determines the meaning of our actions – whether they are good or evil, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly – also gains the authority to tell us what to think and how to behave.

When it comes to climate, countries are just not sovereign. They are at the mercy of actions taken by people on the other side of the planet. The Republic of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero and nevertheless be submerged under the rising waves if other countries don't follow suit.

When it comes to climate, countries are just not sovereign. They are at the mercy of actions taken by people on the other side of the planet.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing.

When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Love doesn't happen because we use flowery words or express good intentions. It becomes real in our difficult choices every day.

A snapshot of our thoughts gives us a picture of the content of our hearts, and what we hold in our hearts serves as the ground, seed, and fertilizer for what grows into our attitudes and actions.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

All actions, Arjuna, are performed by Prakriti, the modes of Nature. The ignorant, deluded by the ego, think, 'I am the doer." Excerpt From 'Invincible Arjuna

A simple dream, a simple thought, can generate actions to shake the world.

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

Everything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions.

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.

The structure of antisemitism means that it's not just a bunch of haphazard ideas, but it can result in, as Fein notes, "actions—social or legal discrimination, political mobilization…and collective or state violence." It also has an internal coherence.

things you do are the things you do. Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.

Karma waits on the doorstep," meaning that a person may try to walk away from past actions, but like a dog sleeping by the door until its master returns, Karma can be endlessly patient. Eventually the universe will insist on redressing the balance of wrong with right.

no tenemos una «configuración inflexible». Nuestro cerebro es increíblemente adaptable; el maravilloso proceso de la neuroplasticidad te da la capacidad, gracias a tus pensamientos, sentimientos y acciones, de desarrollarte en cualquier dirección que elijas.

Si eres demasiado impulsivo, la ira, el miedo y el deseo escaparán a tu control. Y eso conduce a las acciones apresuradas y al arrepentimiento posterior. Si controlas demasiado tus impulsos, tu vida se convierte en una existencia fría y reprimida. Y eso conduce a la falta de vínculos con los demás y con tus propios instintos básicos.

La realización es el resultado de pensamientos correctos, sentimientos correctos y acciones correctas.

She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame. I truly believed there was something unnatural about her - a madness only her children could see. My yearning was not to understand it, but to escape it.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Be magnanimous, and forgive your enemies, but never forget their actions.