Quotes About Actions

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God

Unjust, whether policies, actions or conduct, poison the peace and cause the way of terror and violence.

We're what our choices make us. What you didn't choose isn't part of you. What you do about it will be.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By

our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

Non ci sono gesti, parole, sospiri che non contengano la somma di tutti i crimini che hanno commesso e commettono gli esseri umani.

It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris in a muddy water of the brain. The frantumaglia was mysterious, it provoked mysterious actions, it was the source of all suffering not traceable to a single obvious cause.

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

Musonius Rufus writes that the soul is strengthened by first reminding ourselves of the right perspectives and then moulding our actions to this understanding, so that we stop pursuing things that are not truly good and stop avoiding things that only seem bad. In this way, we 'won't welcome pleasure and avoid pain … won't love living and fear death, and … in the case of money, [we] won't honor receiving over giving.