Top 100 Quotes About Our Actions
#1. Our actions determine our dispositions.
Aristotle.
#2. Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps
#4. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
From Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
#5. By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.
Robert Greene
#6. I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children; that the world isn't all about them, and that through our actions people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.
Gretchen Carlson
#7. God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
George Whitefield
#8. Living in the moment is great, but there's something uniquely powerful about the contemplative life. I think if we slowed down enough to think about what we say, consider the consequences of our actions and reactions, the world would be a better place.
Nicole Baart
#9. Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#10. I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.
Patricia Highsmith
#13. 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
#14. We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a penance for your sins.
Angie McKeon
#15. If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.
Ellen DeGeneres
#16. Think about it this way
our actions speak truth our words cannot.
Na
#17. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J.K. Rowling
#18. 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
#19. Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
Josh Billings
#20. There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!
Fela Durotoye
#21. True faith manifests itself through our actions.
Francis Chan
#22. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan
#23. Believing that, for the most part, our actions determine our fates in life can only spur us to work harder; and when we see this hard work pay off, our belief in ourselves only grows stronger.
Shawn Achor
#24. Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.
Chris Matakas
#25. I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov
#26. Even the smallest of our actions can have great consequences.
Robin Sacredfire
#28. I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.
Charles Eisenstein
#29. 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
#30. Our actions and words built invaluable relationship.
Kishore Bansal
#31. It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.
Dianna Hardy
#32. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)
Donald Rothberg
#33. We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.
Robert Edmond Jones
#34. Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Nick Rahall
#35. People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Lawrence Durrell
#37. The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.
Michael O'Brien
#38. Beauty - real everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.
Justina Chen
#39. In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Our mind speaks by the lips, but, our Hearts speaks through our actions.
Orosa Nakpil Malate
#41. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#42. Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.
Gayle D. Erwin
#43. our actions have infinite consequences; we have limitless choices, if we open our mind to them. Thus, a shift in imagination brings about a dramatic shift in identity, meaning, value, assumptions and aspirations.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#44. You know, Manetto, since I was a child I've always felt something else was among us. Invisible spirits that could guide or at least influence our actions. Perhaps they're the ones that stop us from changing, that make us repeat the same mistakes generation after generation.
Livio Gambarini
#45. We do not know when any seed will come to fruition. We can experience the karmic results of our actions in this lifetime, in the next life, or at any time in the future. But our present actions influence which karmic seeds have the opportunity to come to fruition.
Joseph Goldstein
#46. 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.
Margaret Atwood
#47. We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.
Deepak Chopra
#48. History, that is to be written tomorrow ... to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
Gary Holder-Winfield
#49. No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
#50. Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
Dawn Hammill
#51. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
Rene Descartes
#52. Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons
Oche Otorkpa
#53. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones
#54. The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
Yann Martel
#56. 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
#57. Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
Elizabeth George
#59. I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.
Jane Siberry
#60. Each of us is the real star. We all are so close but still so far i this sky called ground. We all shine, though the light the others see is the one that our actions left in the past.
Christos K
#61. Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#62. The worship of God shouldn't be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation
Sunday Adelaja
#63. That is, we are responsible only for our actions, not for their results. Trust first in God, then in John Day.
George MacDonald
#64. Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.
Bob Harris
#65. If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
Dalai Lama
#66. So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make ... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#67. honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.
Lisa Bevere
#68. What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
Richard M. Nixon
#69. Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
Nadya Suleman
#70. Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#71. Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal
#72. 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.
Annie Besant
#73. We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.
John Assaraf
#74. Oftentimes in life, we can only determine our actions; not the outcome.
David P. Ingerson
#75. He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.
Lisa Unger
#77. Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.
Auliq Ice
#78. I've learned that our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced our lives, but we are responsible for who we become and in the same breath, who we become can't be preached and can only really be shown through our actions.
Elissa Gabrielle
#79. Our relationships are nourished and shaped by the commitment we express through our actions. Don't just speak; ACT!
Steve Maraboli
#80. But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack Obama
#81. the sooner we confront reality, the sooner we can shift our actions toward producing more desirable results. That
Brian P. Moran
#82. We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
Andrew McCutchen
#83. We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.
Nelson Mandela
#85. Our actions let us walk and live. Our imaginations let us fly. So be action oriented and never forget to dream.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
Isaac Watts
#87. Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
Karen Marie Moning
#88. In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
Yehuda Berg
#89. In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
Maximus The Confessor
#90. We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
Aristotle.
#91. What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
Ann Brashares
#92. I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Belva Lockwood
#93. Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend upon all our strokes, all our Actions. -RVM
R.v.m.
#94. Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.
Shems Friedlander
#96. What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger ...
Harry Chapin
#97. The most important spiritual law is that all of our actions must be accompanied by or mixed with faith.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
Stephen Covey
#99. 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
#100. 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
