Actions Quotes

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Ready

I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
Mark Udall

Political, Mean, Words

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

Words, Described, Easily

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Silence

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Superior, Modest

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

Nature, Human, Passion

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

Words, Few, Correspond

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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Others, Leader, Become

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing, Reality, Others

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

May, Words, Show

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Experiment, Timid

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato

Good, Strength, Give

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams, Reality, Living

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Strong, Show

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

Speech, Superior, Modest

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Thoughts

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu

Good, Beautiful, Together

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

Brave, Become, Action

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

True, Words, Friends

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock

Business, Greatest, Others

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Character, Moral, Virtue

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul

Money, Government, Bad

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins

Control, Once, Lives

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Words, Themselves

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

Hope, Live, Desire

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert

Love, Live, True

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Show, Making, Knows

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