Quotes About Actions

In the operative part there are two defects and two corresponding prerogatives of instances. For operation either fails us or it overtasks us. The chief cause of failure in operation (especially after natures have been diligently investigated) is the ill determination and measurement of the forces and actions of bodies.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning? Who someone is and what they do is all that matters.

Who someone is and what they do is all that matters. This is especially true because who we are changes as we grow and as we change our minds. Furthermore, we are never really of one mind about anything. Belief is never the point—actions are. We can be of two minds about biology or God but treat everyone around us with kindness.

National culture is the collective thought process of a people to describe, justify, and extol the actions whereby they have joined forces and remained strong. National culture in the underdeveloped countries, therefore, must lie at the very heart of the liberation struggle these countries are waging. (168)

Buddhist morality includes everything we do. You can never know just how far-reaching the effects of your actions might be.

Respect is earned, not demanded. It's the result of your actions, not your words.

To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything. So do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

Have you no thoughts on the matter?" Blushweaver finally asked. "I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and-if you're not careful-those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book." Blushweaver sighed. "You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort... is there anything you don't avoid?" "Breakfast.

Even small actions have consequences. And while we can often choose our actions, we rarely get to choose our consequences.

There was honor in facing the consequences of one's actions. Wasn't there?

Honor' is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book." Blushweaver

I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.

A man can say all kinds of things, but where he sets his spheres, that's where his heart is.

Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.

o aceptas la opción mejor: que tus actos te definen más que tus intenciones. Que tus objetivos y el viaje que emprendes para alcanzarlos deben alinearse.

Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.

trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions,