Our Actions Quotes

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

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.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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.

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.

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

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.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

By our actions we tell Him of our love.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

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.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

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.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

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.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

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.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

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.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.