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Quotes About Actions

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.
~ Robert Thurman
As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
~ Sophocles
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.
~ Jodi Picoult
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment.
~ Maurice Druon
The curse did not come from God. It emanated from himself and had no other source but in his own actions; and this was true of every man and of every punishment.
~ Maurice Druon
Today's thoughts are tomorrow's actions.
~ Max Lucado
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
~ Maya Angelou
As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.
~ Maya Banks
Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader.
~ Maya Banks
words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained.
~ Maya Banks
Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement
~ Meljean Brook
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good.
~ Mercedes Lackey
My job was simple: have faith through the storm, be determined in my actions, smart in my decisions, trusting of my instinct, and free from worrying about whether I succeeded or failed.
~ Bear Grylls
We are often taught we have no control over our "feelings." Yet most of us accept that we choose our actions, that intention and will inform what we do. We also accept that our actions have consequences.
~ bell hooks
it [living purposefully] entails taking responsibility for consciously creating goals, identifying the actions necessary to achieve the, making sure our behavior is in alignment with our goals, and paying attention to the outcome of our actions so that we see whether they are leading us where we want to go.
~ bell hooks
Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.
~ bell hooks
Contemplation enlarges not only the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war will all the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thraldom of narrow hopes and fears.
~ Bertrand Russell
The immense majority of even the noblest persons' actions have self-regarding motives, nor is this to be regretted, since if it were otherwise, the human race could not survive. A man who spent his time seeing that others were fed and forgot to feed himself would perish.
~ Bertrand Russell
Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves.
~ Beth Moore
Inevitably, Saul's faraway heart would turn to faraway actions.
~ Beth Moore
I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That's all that counts.
~ Emmanuel Macron