Quotes about Actions

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.

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

When smart people do dumb things it's usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They want something they're not supposed to have or they've done something they weren't supposed to do. In either case they've usually fasten on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality. It has become more important for them to believe that to know.

William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just by making up our minds to-but that we can change our actions. And that when we change our actions, we will automatically change our feelings.

The soul is the seat of the affections, and what a great part of our decisions and actions is influenced by these! There is nothing deliberately sinful about them, mind you. It is just that there is something in us which can go out in natural affection to another person, and which, ungoverned by the Spirit, can influence wrongly our whole course of action.

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective Christian.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

The words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the 'style' of unconditional love.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.