Quotes About Actions

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men's way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.

What you put out is what you get back.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

People can do bad things for good reasons, or for what they think are good reasons.

We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.

My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence.

Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.

Climate change is real and we must work to gain public support for addressing it through responsible actions that grow jobs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.

he would perhaps have known that to try too hard to make people good, is one way to make them worse; that the only way to make them good is to be good -- remembering well the beam and the mote; that the time for speaking comes rarely, the time for being never departs.

Nobody does anything bad all at once. Wickedness needs an apprenticeship as well as more difficult trades.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

Od ideja smo prešli na rije?i, od rije?i smo prešli na djela, zbog toga se vladaju?i i boje ideja.

Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us.

Kind little words, which are of the same blood as great and holy deeds," flowed from his lips constantly.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Pero entre estos sueños demasiado grandes, a los que se entregaban con una complacencia extraña, y la nulidad de sus acciones reales no se insertaba ningún proyecto racional, que hubiera conciliado las necesidades objetivas y sus posibilidades financieras. Los paralizaba la inmensidad de sus deseos.

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.