Quotes about Actions
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
— Teresa of Avila
Matthew 7:16 tells us that by their fruits you shall know them. Donald Trump's life has borne fruit, fruit that has provided jobs to multitudes of people in addition to the many he has helped with his generosity.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
If we want to know what it means to be human, we look at Jesus. He does things we'd culturally consider feminine - like weep - and others our culture would consider masculine - like flip tables in the temple. But really all these things are just human. And since Jesus is God, these characteristics are also divine.
— Shane Claiborne
Irish rock star Bono has said, "Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
— Shane Claiborne
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not "selflessness" or "sacrifice," but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one's convictions and values; it is the policy of acting in accordance with one's values, of expressing, upholding and translating them into practical reality. If a man professes to love a woman, yet his actions are indifferent, inimical or damaging to her, it is his lack of integrity that makes him immoral.
— Ayn Rand
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.
— Barack Obama
He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions
— Stephen Covey
Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.
— Stephen Covey
Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit
— Stephen Covey
We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result
— Stephen Covey
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
— Stephen Covey