#Actions Quotes

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.”

“Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.”

“Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.”

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

“What you think and do affects all other people.”

“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.”

“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”

“The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.”

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

“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.”

“What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.”

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

“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.”

“Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”

“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.”

“In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.”

“Goodness that preaches undoes itself.”

“Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness”

“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.”

“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.”

“We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.”

“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.”

“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.”

“What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.”

“What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you”

“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.”

“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!”

“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 a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.”

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

“No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.”

“The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.”

“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.”

“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”

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

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

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”