Quotes About Actions

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

It is nonsense to talk about injuring no one but yourself ... Without injuring hundreds, if not thousands, besides, in a greater or less degree, either by the evil you do or the good you leave undone.

your actions are all right so far; but I would have your thoughts changed; I would have you to fortify yourself against temptation, and not to call evil good, and good evil; I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has. Yes, Marius said. Exactly. Simplicity and brutality are synonymous in philosophy and in actions. It is brutal what you propose!

because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take. When you lead without compensation, when you sacrifice without guarantees, when you take risks because you believe, then you are demonstrating your faith in the tribe and its mission. Of course it's difficult. But leaders will tell you that it's worth it.

Rhetoric worked beautifully when applied to simple things like the nature of God, but how was one to use it in the chaos of human actions?

Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

An inversion is present when a system, such as a democracy, produces a number of significant actions ordinarily associated with its antithesis: for example, when the elected chief executive may imprison an accused without due process and sanction the use of torture while instructing the nation about the sanctity of the rule of law.

Actions that sometimes seem mean aren't. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)