612 quotes found
“Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony.”
“We talk what we think but do what we believe.”
“The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go ...”
“Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et penses, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and though...”
“He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged ...”
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. We are often...”
“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.”
“Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.”
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
“A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.”
“Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?”
“The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.”
“If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your...”
“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.”
“I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wi...”
“It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was ...”
“Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes...”
“The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.”
“You could say Im so manly I dont even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions”
“A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition - that is, it is good in itself, and...”
