The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were good and those people were evil, and it kept going, because people always responded, and pretty soon the place was a roaring hell because no one took responsibility for what they did, and how it would drive others to respond.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.
~ Anonymous
You arenever responsible for the actions of others, you are only responsible for you.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
~ Iris Murdoch
He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?
~ Irving Stone
Like the fragrance of a flower, our actions reveal the beauty of your life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Avoid letting circumstances control your decisions and dictate your actions, thereby controlling your life.
~ Steven Redhead
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
~ Elizabeth George
Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory.
~ Steve Maraboli
Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.
~ Amit Abraham
Words do not solve problems, actions do.
~ Murad S. Shah
Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions.
~ M.f. Moonzajer
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little, do something.
~ Sydney Smith
The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn thatAnd if everyone dies, no one learns anything
~ Liz Braswell
The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
~ Bill Courtney
Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.
~ Mohammed Rasmi
I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.
Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.
~ Megan Jacobson
We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.
~ Angie Karan
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
~ Mother Teresa
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
~ Mark Twain
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~ John Locke
Belief means nothing without actions
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
~ Abraham Verghese
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
~ Rebecca Stead
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
~ Thomas À Kempis
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences, in fact it was just the opposite.
~ Chad Harbach
Every action triggers a reaction.
~ C.g. Watson
Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.
~ Anton Chekhov
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their act
~ Jared Diamond
Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
~ Julien Smith
Actions always have consequences!
~ Joel Coen
You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
~ Andy Andrews
Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?
~ Tamar Cohen
Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.
~ Rebecca Gordon
Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people.
~ Confucius
Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.
