Quotes with actions

Quotes 81 till 100 of 191.

  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ching Ning Chu It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Swami Brahmananda Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Bill Shorten Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Aristotle Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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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  • Albert Bandura Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Victor Hugo My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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