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Quotes about Actions

You are an artist and your masterpiece is your life. Your world is the canvas. Your desires and ideas are the sketches. Your thoughts, words, and attitudes are the paint. Your body is the brush. Your actions are the strokes. Your beliefs are the skills you use to apply the paint. Your faith and gratitude determine how extraordinary your work of art is.
— Jen Sincero
What, then, is your own? The way you live your life.
— Epictetus
Everyone who draws breath "takes the lead" many times a day. We lead with actions that range from a smile to a frown; with words that range from blessing to curse; with decisions that range from faithful to fearful….
— Peter Scazzero
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
— Philip James Bailey
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
— Philip James Bailey
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
— Barack Obama
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
— Jonathan Edwards
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson