Quotes about Actions
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated
— Paulo Coelho
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
— Oprah Winfrey
[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.
— Shane Claiborne
She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.
— Candace Bushnell
I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
— Karl Rahner
Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.
— Gary Thomas
That in his trouble of mind, he had consulted nobody, but knowing only by the light of faith that GOD was present, he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him, i.e., doing them with a desire to please Him, let what would come of it. That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD.
— Brother Lawrence
Ah, thought he, after good actions one's conscience is never ungrateful, however much so the benefited party may be.
— Herman Melville
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
— Stephen Covey