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Quotes About Actions

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
~ Spinoza
By the karma of good actions, some come to serve the Perfect Guru.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
As is their awareness, so is their way. According to the account of our actions, we come and go in reincarnation.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
~ Stéphane Mallarmé
The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.
~ Starhawk
Gnosticism is a system of thought based on interior, psychospiritual experience. This being the case, it is not surprising that Gnosticism emphasizes states of mind and regards actions as secondary in nature and importance. Gnostics have always held that consciousness, rather than external action, is the true indicator of moral worth.
~ Stephan A. Hoeller
I feel guilty about most things, though it's usually to do with actions that would impact on other people.
~ Stephanie Merritt
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
~ James Sharp
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
~ David Edward Kirk
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.
~ Laurence Tribe
Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.
~ David Morrell, First Blood
Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.
~ Debasish Mridha
We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it.
~ Debasish Mridha
has become strong over the past four years. He thinks he is invincible. It is a common trait in the disassembling phase of a psychopath. A state of confidence and invulnerability rises as, in actuality, the psychopath is making more and more mistakes. Disassembling. Becoming vulnerable to discovery." "So because he has gotten away with his actions for four years, he thinks he is clear and is so untouchable
~ Michael Connelly
Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off because an abstract cause is said to be greater than any human consequences. Once
~ Michael Crichton
Oh, there are different ways of being to blame, the Acharis replied. In what you do. In what you think. . . We're to blame for just living
~ Michael Ende
Hayal kurmak, suç iÅŸlemekten farks?zd?.
~ Michael Ende
Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women — as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.
~ Michael Kimmel