Quotes About Actions

You've got to judge people, ultimately, by their actions rather than their words.

I'm somebody who inspires by his own performances, by the way he conducts himself on and off the field. My discipline... I look to inspire by my actions, not just words.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

So many people are going to always remember what you do and how you make them feel instead of you telling them this and telling them that. That's why I like to go out and show the work ethic and how I am as a teammate. That's how you become great.

Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.

While it's important to be open-minded, we don't have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it's most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran's threats and actions.

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

The entire fate of the nation was being decided by the will of those men who had the feeblest power of introspection and by the blind actions of the ignorant mob that followed them.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

our future depends on our actions as a species.

Our intention is that of a shepherd, but our actions are those of a loving, wise, compassionate leader. If we all act according to this code, we will create an enlightened society.

Trying to change a behavior that gets in your way rarely succeeds unless you understand the beliefs that inform it. Beliefs create the framework that shapes your actions. They provide rationales for how you behave and offer logical reasons for why you actually don't need to change.

I believed that the most important part of decision-making was not the justness of one's intentions but the effectiveness of one's actions.

it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

You claimed that... I would embroil those same carefully and colorfully constructed barrow-pushers and counts and wagoners and cutpurses in perfectly preposterous actions, during the course of which each would declare with great eloquence things that no count or cutpurse would ever possibly say. And if any ever even thought that he or she felt such things, you maintained, it was only from having been taken in by our skits in the first place.

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.