Actions Quotes

3286 Actions quotes by 1912 unique authors

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems… — Will Self
Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure… — Ariel Sharon
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. — George Bernard Shaw
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. — Sidney Sheldon
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… — Sivananda
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. — Simon Sinek
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay… — Simon Sinek
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it… — Simon Sinek
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to… — Peter Singer
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in… — Red Skelton
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm… — Zadie Smith
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes… — Thomas Sowell
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure.… — Charles Stanley
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance… — Laurence Sterne
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let… — Henry L. Stimson
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. — David Suzuki
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the… — Emanuel Swedenborg
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is… — Daniel Tammet
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these… — Marlo Thomas
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from… — William Irwin Thompson
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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