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“I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.”
“We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying”
“What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.”
“Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves ...”
“Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience....Which is why, Gamach...”
“My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him”
“Certain actions bring harm, other more wizened actions bring harmony.”
“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”
“We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”
“Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.”
“It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...”
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.”
“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”
“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
“God is willing to help you with the rain if only you can sow your crops.”
“No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step”