Our Actions Quotes - Page 12

• Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.

  Hany El-Banna

  Waiting, Humanity, Culture

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Action, Results

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• We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, People, Thought Provoking

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• The vision is always to point one to God and to Christ our Savior and to give Him the glory for our actions. We are encouraged to see the hope that Christ brings into our lives and to share the encouragement with our friends and neighbors.

  Mike Reese

  God, Encouragement, Giving

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• 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

  Presidential, Choices, World

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.1, Best Books on

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson 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

  Kings, Mistake, Dark

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• This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

  Albert Bandura

  Communication, Reality, Sitting

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• 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

  Brain, Emotion, Capability

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• Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

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  Ram Dass

  Mean, Compassion, Animal

  Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush (1992). “Compassion in action: setting out on the path of service”, Harmony

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

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, Experience, Compromise

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• You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Views, Names

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.186, Wizards of the Coast

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Doubt, Balance

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Choices, Accepting, Our Lives

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• I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

  Gena Showalter

  Temptation, Secret, Admitting

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Intertwined”, p.138, Harlequin

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Littles, Moral, Justify

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• 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

  Real, Worry, Might

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• 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

  Order, Answers, Sometimes

  1986 A Perfect Spy, ch.1.

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• Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Integrity, Judging, Childhood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

  Jean Vanier

  Humanity, Important, Finals

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.152, Paulist Press

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• Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than others."..."Which do you believe in, luck or Destiny?" Joe considered a moment befoe replying, "We make our own luck, Ludlow, by our actions and our state of mind. As such you control your own fate. Oney one thing is certain: None of us can escape the grave.

  F.E. Higgins

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

  James E. Faust

  Children, Levels, Lord

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• A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Drinking, Years, Two

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.

  Michael Grant

  Believe, Thinking, Actions Have Consequences

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• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

  Louise Erdrich

  Children, Promise, Birth

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• 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

  Attitude, Real, Faces

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