Quotes About Actions

Unconscious neural events determine our thoughts and actions—and are themselves determined by prior causes of which we are subjectively unaware.

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

it is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces—some sad, others bright—on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands;—it leaves its track! Alas, to many the path is traced by tears.

Misfortune is sometimes needed to plumb certain understandings of the actions of man.

verdad es que todas nuestras acciones dejan huellas, las unas sombrías, las otras luminosas, en nuestro pasado! ¡Verdad es también que nuestros pasos en esta vida se asemejan a la marcha del reptil sobre la arena y dejan un surco! ¡Ay!, para muchos este surco es el de sus lágrimas.

Montaigne said long ago: Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track. The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.

One must go to America to understand what power material well-being exerts on political actions and even on opinions themselves, which ought to be subject only to reason.

A private meaning is in fact no meaning at all. Meaning is only possible in communication: a word which meant something to one person only would really be meaningless. It is the same with our aims and actions; their only meaning is their meaning for others. Every human being strives for significance; but people always make mistakes if they do not see that their whole significance must consist in their contribution to the lives of others. An

a man has many lives. Each day we chose the path we would take by our own actions... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were give and what we made for ourselves.

a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.

for a man's fate changed every day, depending upon his actions.

The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.

But what does it matter? It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

Your personality is made up of how you think, act, and feel. It is your state of being. Therefore, your same thoughts, actions, and feelings will keep you enslaved to the same past personal reality. However, when you as a personality embrace new thoughts, actions, and feelings, you will inevitably create a new personal reality in your future.