Top 1200 Human Actions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

?Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

If we ramp up capabilities in China, including additional 737-related work, the actions that we'll take are actions that ultimately allow us to grow jobs in the U.S.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

I am responsible for my own actions and for nobody else's actions.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

In selfie pictures, there is no human touch; it's all about the pose. But selfie videos have sound, actions, and emotions.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will realize that Scripture itself is the work of human minds, recording the example and teaching of Jesus. Thus it is not what you believe that matters; it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him.