Actions Quotes

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

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.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

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

We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.