Our Actions Quotes - Page 6

• When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Self, Benefits

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• Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Action, Influence, Motive

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• With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Our actions are the ground we walk on.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Action, Walks

  "BWW Interviews: SOPAC Benefit with Mandy Patinkin". Interview with Gregory G. Allen, www.broadwayworld.com. June 8, 2013.

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• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

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• 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, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Memories, Fate, Long

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Attitude, People, Rude

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• It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

  Kenneth Clarke

  War, Iraq, Leaving

  Kenneth Clarke's speech, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2005.

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• What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Skills, Joy, Empowerment

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• Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

  William Landay

  Simple, Important, Environment

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• I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Ukraine, Organization

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• Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

  Eudora Welty

  Mean, Years, New Experiences

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.83, Modern Library

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

  Michael J. Fox

  Challenges, Action

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2014

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• Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Neutrality, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Trying

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Emptiness

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  New York, Fate, Gay

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• 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

  Years, East, Lasts

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• Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Together

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• 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

  Attitude, People, Focus

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• Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring glory to God or misrepresent His truth.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

  Barack Obama

  America, Looks, Problem

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• 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

  Soul, Arms, Doing Good

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• Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
  We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.

  Seth Godin

  Character, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Doe, Reason, Prophet

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.35, Full Moon Publications

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