Emily Dickinson Quotes

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.

Instincts and fundamentals take over sometimes.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!