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Quotes About Actions

No basta que las frases sean buenas; también debe ser bueno lo que se hace con ellas.
~ Aldous Huxley
People who do that sort of thing may reap what they sow, but they also destroy the harvest of those who are around them.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The loudly good are often not the best of people; the intuitively good, to whom it may not occur ever to discuss what they do, let alone why they do it, may be morally unsung, but are heroes nonetheless.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We were all just people who chose to call ourselves by curious things known as names, and the only significant difference between any of us lay in what we did with our lives.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Pétri de vanité il avait encore plus de cette espèce d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de supériorité, peut-être imaginaire. Tiré d'une lettre particulière
~ Alexander Pushkin
ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals." (p. 9)
~ Donald Rothberg
A feedback loop is a closed chain of causal connections from a stock, through a set of decisions or rules or physical laws or actions that are dependent on the level of the stock, and back again through a flow to change the stock.
~ Donella H. Meadows
P)ersonality...is perhaps the very most important thing in the world. Yet we know only one or two things about it. We know that anybody's personality is made up of the sum total of all the actions and thoughts and desires of his life. And we know that though there aren't any words or any figures in any languages to set down that sum total accurately, still it is one of the first things that everybody knows about anybody else. And that really is all we know!
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
~ Dorothy Day
Only actions can be crimes. Let us repeat that one: emotions are never wrong; only actions can be wrong. Emotions are an expression of our emotional truth, and truth cannot be wrong. Nor do they need to be justified. They just need to be felt. Remember
~ Dossie Easton
The heart is forever unfaithful, and the feelings of love will come and go, but true love is not about what you feel. It is about what you do.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
It's worth repeating that worry provides no known benefit and cannot change what will happen tomorrow - but it can weaken your faith, cripple your actions, destroy your inner peace of mind and make you feel powerless.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony
Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events.
~ Duane Elmer
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
~ Vinoba Bhave
It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
~ Albert Einstein
There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.
~ Arthur De Vany
Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.
~ Russell Crowe
Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
~ Cheryl Richardson
We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.
~ Phil Keoghan