Polish your mind to reflect the shimmering beauty of your words and actions.

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids...

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 by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or...

Until the spirit of consistency kicks in, you would never know how far you could possibly go in life. Taking consistent effective actions is the only way that massive success could become a permanent lifestyle in your life.

Keep my word’ is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means ‘Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, ‘Hold your words back.’ Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.

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.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

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

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found purpose in the madness. When that day came, I didn’t allow other people to dictate how I should feel or...

Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry’s tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left....

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

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.

Belief means nothing without actions

Ready, fire, aim.

Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.

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.

Love yourself enough to take the actions required for your happiness… Love yourself enough to cut yourself loose from the ties of the drama-filled past… Love yourself enough to move on!

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

It’s not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it’s about what I can DO for our future and humanity.

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then...

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

We can’t make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. – Army saying

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be….Be smart about it. Don’t fall for the bullshit.

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...

Your words are wise, but are your actions too?

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the...

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn’t that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader.

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, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got...

If you sincerely love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

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.

Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life.

Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions.

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.

One of the grat tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the...

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.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

Faith alone is never enough. You must follow up with the right effective plan and strategic action.

Stop waiting around for your life to get better and start getting better with your thoughts, decisions and actions.