#actions

"What we do comes out of who we believe we are."

"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."

"If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)"

"You are not your body. You are the sum of all your actions, and they live on after your body dies. You may be mortal, but your brand is eternal."

"Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions."

"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 sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"I’ve only been in love one time, I said as I held up my pinky finger. I could have held up my index finger, but I wasn’t in love that long."

"Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is."

"Your life is a print-out of your thoughts."

"If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going."

"There is no true reality. It is just an interplay of your consciousness, awareness, thoughts, and actions."

"What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan."

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."

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

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

"But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him."

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."

"In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy."