I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
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Related Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide charact... TRYON EDWARDS Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide charac... TRYON EDWARDS Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide charac... TYRON EDWARDS Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I g... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA The only things in your control are your thoughts and then your actions. Positive,
powerful thoughts... GREG WERNER Those who try to control the thoughts and actions of others, do so because it's easier than controll... BJ MORIN When you collect your thoughts make sure you make time to share them. Because if you don't your thou... LUIS F. GOUVEIA All actions begin as thoughts. Choose your thoughts carefully, and your actions will be good. JIM GENOVESE Spiritual beings do not allow their thoughts and feelings to flow from their
actions, they understan... WAYNE DYER Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions. SUNDAY ADELAJA Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words.
Be careful of your words, for your... FEMALE IMAGINATION Good thoughts naturally culminates into good actions. YAJUR VEDA Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are. DEBASISH MRIDHA Unless you learn to control your thoughts, you will never be able to control your actions; and if yo... BOHDI SANDERS Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions. NANDAN NILEKANI What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not... PLATO Unless I am on a deserted island, my actions affect others; I cannot live to myself. Even if alone o... NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your life is merely what your thoughts and actions make it. SCOTTIE SOMERS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD You have the power to choose joyful living through your thoughts, actions, and choices. AMY LEIGH MERCREE Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts. STEVEN REDHEAD Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thought... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving,... STEVE MARABOLI Thoughts influence actions. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th... SAMUEL BUTLER Actions - not thoughts or intentions - were the way to judge others. NICHOLAS SPARKS 'Mabuting loob'.People with GOOD WILL are blessings. They are what the Bible says 'just.' They think... JOHN B. BEJO Thoughts first then actions, and actions must be justified; otherwise we will regret our actions. PETER SAYSOMPHANE There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would no... MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not ... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not ... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions. DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do b... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone havin... JONI MITCHELL Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who fel... FELICE PICANO Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tir... CRISS JAMI Keep negative comments from influencing your thoughts and actions. Focus your mind on pursuing your ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose... EUGENE DEBS I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mo... EUGENE DEBS The Secretary-General appeals for calm and calls on all Sudanese to refrain from actions which may l... STEPHANE DUJARRIC I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. JOHN LOCKE Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. HERMANN HESSE Ignorance causes all foolish thoughts and actions ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. DASHANNE STOKES Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cog... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation. DEBASISH MRIDHA Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. RASHEED OGUNLARU I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words. GERARD ARPEY The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time. JOHN MACKEY If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth—it is you who took the actions,... JACK CANFIELD You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good ... ROGER PENSKE Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever... ELIZABETH THORNTON Fear works just like faith. It controls your thoughts and actions. TROY GATHERS Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for. AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN Your achievements in life are dependent on a simple two step process: 1) think
positive achievement ... GREG WERNER "You are not defined by the thoughts of others but by the actions you take to define yourself!"- Mar... MARIAH PRUSSIA Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation. Action opens more doors then... CHARLES F. GLASSMAN If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. FONTENELLE I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ... OSAMU DAZAI To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions ... JOHN KASICH Great men must conquer their thoughts in order to become masters of their actions. OMA MILLIE Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them. KEVIN J. DONALDSON Manners in human actions, train thoughts of the human mind. TROY J. GAINEY Negative Thoughts, Actions and Deeds Create Emotions, and these Emotions WILL EAT YOU... ALLAN RUFUS Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your words Your words become your a... LOUISE PENNY God rewards a person not for the deeds he does openly, but according to the thoughts and actions he ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Pro-activeness is the ability to subject one’s thoughts, feelings and actions to his goals SUNDAY ADELAJA I wanted someone in this vitally important job who I have selected to lead the team and baseball org... BOB CASTELLINI Press on eternally to the higher and larger realization of absolute goodness, and leave results to t... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's ... TOM CUNNINGHAM You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to... JASMINE GUY You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to... JASMINE GUY The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflect... ROBERT M. PIRSIG If we could see our thoughts, words, and actions as God does, it would be easy to obey the command t... DAVID L. HATTON The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in conte... HAROLD RUSSELL Mere thoughts of success wouldn't add much to the life, but actions will. SUSHMITA BALANI What we do comes out of who we believe we are. ROB BELL Hatred, bigotry, jealousy, intolerance and all other negative thoughts or actions are simply symptom... JOE MCINTYRE You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control ... TOBEY MAGUIRE He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey AMUNHOTEP EL BEY I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives o... RUSSELL M. NELSON Because sure enough, the more you try to eradicate those limiting thoughts from bouncing around in y... STEPHEN RICHARDS I believe in deeds, not words. TAMORA PIERCE When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the ligh... ROBBIE WILLIAMS Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will s... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu... JACK GANTOS Your actions are living affirmations of what you say you believe and feel. ‘Affirmative action’ ... DEREK RYDALL Change your thoughts & you Change your focus.Change your focus you change your actions, Change your ... LALIT BHOJWANI Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; t... SOURCE UNKNOWN Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light... HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can
bear the bright light... HERACLITUS Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ... KARIN SLAUGHTER She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions JOHN MAXWELL
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BRANDON SANDERSON To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself. BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.” He ... BRANDON SANDERSON What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ... BRANDON SANDERSON That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th... BRANDON SANDERSON This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again. BRANDON SANDERSON Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where... BRANDON SANDERSON Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service. BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. BRANDON SANDERSON And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has... BRANDON SANDERSON Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses... BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ... BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before. BRANDON SANDERSON I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo... BRANDON SANDERSON In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our ex... BRANDON SANDERSON If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de... BRANDON SANDERSON Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect,... BRANDON SANDERSON There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." BRANDON SANDERSON Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it... BRANDON SANDERSON ...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the ... BRANDON SANDERSON I told him that you were simply showing me the ways of court. Kind of like an…older brother.” BRANDON SANDERSON We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ... BRANDON SANDERSON The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The... BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though... BRANDON SANDERSON Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo... BRANDON SANDERSON I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with. BRANDON SANDERSON We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer... BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ... BRANDON SANDERSON In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi... BRANDON SANDERSON Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'... BRANDON SANDERSON I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open. BRANDON SANDERSON XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ... BRANDON SANDERSON Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert. BRANDON SANDERSON On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world. BRANDON SANDERSON Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." ... BRANDON SANDERSON