Quotes with actions

  • Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
  • Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
  • In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
  • Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
  • I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
  • Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
  • Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
  • Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
  • In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
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  • William Shakespeare Strong reasons make strong actions.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • John A. Hannah The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Napoleon Hill The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • George Washington A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Andrew Denton Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
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  • Les Brown Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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