Actions Quotes

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.

Great talkers are little doers.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

What you think and do affects all other people.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

Priorities lie in your actions

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

That is honor's scornWhich challenges itself as honor's bornAnd is not like the sire. Honors thriveWhen rather from our acts we them deriveThan our foregoers.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.