If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets. — Tracy Morgan
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? — Jon Stewart
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral. — Adam Schiff
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. — John Roberts
Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do. — Alexis Herman
Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon. — Gad Saad
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. — Laurence J. Peter
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. — Mao Zedong
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. — Harry A. Blackmun
Let diversity not be the goal, but a byproduct of actually selecting the best person for the job. — Vivek Ramaswamy
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. — Betty Friedan
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Paul Vallas
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Short Actions Quotes
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. — Mother Teresa
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. — Confucius
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action. — Fidel Castro
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction — Isaac Newton
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. — Voltaire
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. — Anthony of Padua
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.
Our Actions Quotes
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God. — Teresa of Avila
Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture. — Rudolf von Laban
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. — John the Apostle
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Henry Melvill
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. — Maxwell Maltz
Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others. — Rosa Parks
Thoughts And Actions Quotes
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu
Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn! — Kenneth E. Hagin
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting. — Albert Ellis
What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions. — Albert Bandura
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions. — Michio Kushi
Words And Actions Quotes
Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision. — Steven Furtick
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words. — Christine Caine
Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, but what you do consistently.
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. — Trent Shelton
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. — Kyuzo Mifune
Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. — John the Apostle
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. — Mas Oyama
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. — Sogyal Rinpoche
The mountain cannot be conquered by words, only by action and effort. — Nirmal Purja
If they [the US] see Ukraine in NATO, they have to say it directly, and do it. Not words. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Human Actions Quotes
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. — Queen Elizabeth II
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own. — Marcus Garvey
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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. — Nelson Mandela
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope. — Cornel West
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present. — Mairead Corrigan
Small Actions Quotes
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn
A small act is worth a million thoughts. — Ai Weiwei
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Nichiren
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller. — Herb Kelleher
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. — George Eliot
Take action every day - some small dose at a time. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change. — Robert D. Maurer
Bad Actions Quotes
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. — Tryon Edwards
When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action. — Zig Ziglar
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs
You can feel bad and choose to do nothing about it. — Alex Hormozi
If you do good, good things come to you. If you do bad, bad things come to you. — Thai Proverbs
Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it. It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Your actions reveal your true motivations. — James Clear
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. — Ron Paul
Wrong Actions Quotes
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan. — Hakuin Ekaku
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong. — Calvin Coolidge
Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence. — John Dufresne
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. — John Stuart Mill
If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good. — Matt Dillahunty
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action. — David Deida
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts. — Andrei Tarkovsky
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
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