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Quotes About Actions

To say that you love someone is so easy, that's why it's now a formality. Whereas, to prove it is not often so easy. Oh! Yes, that's just a reality.
~ Emeasoba George
True Leadership is meant to be approached/portrayed via positive thinking, speaking, attitude, actions, programs, policies, projects and not at all the other way round.
~ Emeasoba George
True love is meant to be seen more in your actions/attitudes towards all & sundry and less in your speeches/words towards them.
~ Emeasoba George
Unfailing faith, positive mindset & actions are required of you in order to get round issues/matters of life i.e. to deal with them & in due course.
~ Emeasoba George
Until you control and overcome your thoughts/actions/feelings/weaknesses believe me or don't, you are not at all self-controlled.
~ Emeasoba George
What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear—do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.
~ Emil Cioran
Saintliness is a special kind of madness. While the madness of mortals exhausts itself in useless and fantastic actions, holy madness is a conscious effort towards winning everything.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Constantemente, explicamos por paixões generosas ou considerações elevadas procedimentos que nos foram inspirados por sentimentos mesquinhos ou por cega irreflexão.
~ Émile Durkheim
It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.
~ Émile Durkheim
You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
~ Emily Giffin
The use of the Queen, in a dignified capacity, is incalculable. Without her in England, the present English Government would fail and pass away. Most people when they read that the Queen walked on the slopes at Windsor—that the Prince of Wales went to the Derby—have imagined that too much thought and prominence were given to little things. But they have been in error; and it is nice to trace how the actions of a retired widow and an unemployed youth become of such importance.
~ bagehot walter vii
To state the matter shortly, royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.
~ bagehot walter xvi
The manner of writing history is as characteristic of the narrator as the actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them; often much more so. It may be generally defined as a view of one age taken by another; a picture of a series of men and women painted by one of another series.
~ bagehot walter xviii
As, therefore, nature knows nothing of good intentions, rewarding and punishing not motives but actions; as things are what they are, describe them as we may, and their consequences will be what they will be.
~ balfour arthur james iv
We're constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
~ Barack Obama
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
~ Barack Obama
Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.
~ Barbara Delinsky
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, "history originated as myth" and becomes a "social memory" to which men can appeal, "knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions." If
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.
~ Barry Schwartz