Our Actions famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
-- Abraham Verghese -
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide
-- Alan Watts -
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-- Albert Bandura -
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
-- Andrew McCutchen -
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.
-- Aristotle -
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood -
What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.
-- Billy Graham -
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
-- Bob Goff -
Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ,
-- Clayton Kershaw -
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.
-- Dalai Lama -
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
-- David Jeremiah -
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
-- David Platt -
Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
-- Elizabeth of the Trinity -
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
-- Eric Kandel -
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
-- Francis Chan -
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.
-- Gary Zukav -
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
-- George Chapman -
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
-- George Eliot -
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
-- George Eliot -
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.
-- Giancarlo Esposito -
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
-- Greta Garbo -
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
-- H. Burke Peterson -
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
-- Horace Bushnell -
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
-- Hubert Selby, Jr. -
What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.
-- Hugh Howey -
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
-- J. K. Rowling -
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?
-- Jacob Bronowski -
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
-- James Lovelock -
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
-- James Sharp -
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
-- Jane D. Hull -
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!
-- Jay E. Adams -
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
-- John le Carre -
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.
-- Joseph Addison -
Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
-- Karen Marie Moning -
Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren
-- Kathryn Lasky -
Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
-- Kirby Larson -
Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.
-- L. Tom Perry -
Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.
-- L. Whitney Clayton -
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.
-- Little Crow -
Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.
-- Louie Giglio -
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
-- Luis Bunuel -
Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
-- Luis Bunuel -
We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.
-- M. Russell Ballard -
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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 -
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
-- Maximus the Confessor -
Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
-- Michael J. Fox -
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration...
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
-- Mike Pence -
Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
-- Nadya Suleman -
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.
-- Nick Clooney -
It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.
-- Origen -
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
-- Peter Høeg -
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
-- Polly Horvath -
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
-- Pope Francis -
That which holds our attention determines our action.
-- Prince William -
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.
-- R. A. Salvatore -
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?
-- R. D. Laing -
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
-- Rahm Emanuel -
I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.
-- Robert Ringer -
There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion
-- Ruben Papian -
Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.
-- Shinjo Ito -
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche -
Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche -
The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche -
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
-- Stanley Tucci -
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
-- Stephen Covey -
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
-- Stephen Hawking -
Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.
-- Tae Yun Kim -
The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu -
We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
-- Thomas Menino -
Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
-- Thomas Sankara
