Our Actions Quotes - Page 8

• ...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

  Huston Smith

  Action, Consequences Of Our Actions, Consequence

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• I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

  Richard G. Scott

  Destiny, Choices, Finals

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• The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• 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

  Communication, Speak, Seven

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Law, Goal

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Suffering, Realizing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• When many people start practicing yoga, they are amazed to discover that their body isn't just something used to carry their head around - their body has intelligence too. We start to feel how our actions affect the lives of others - this could be described as becoming political, because the word politic means the "greater body" - it refers to the community of others with whom we share the Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Mean, People

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• 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

  Effort, Desire, Resistance

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• To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.

  John Dewey

  Views, Ideas, Able

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.35, SIU Press

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

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Action, Habit, Prisoner

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Practice, Action

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Regret, Yoga, Goal

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.

  Darren Hardy

  Honesty, Liars, Stress

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• So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

  Mike Norton

  Long, Choices, Bravery

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

  David Holmgren

  Action, Projects, Process

  David Holmgren (2012). “Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change”, p.115, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sacred and ministerial. To be called into the priesthood, as all of us are, is to be called to a life of presence, of kindness.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Teacher, Kindness, Humble

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.116, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  War, Needs, Anarchy

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• Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Men, Blow

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

  Leslie Jamison

  Empathy, Might, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Long, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Momentum, Coming Out, Notion

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

  Eric Harvey

  Judging, Action, Intention

  "Walk the Talk". Book by Eric Harvey, 2003.

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• Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Technology, Two

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• When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

  Dallas Willard

  Christ, Gifts Of Life, Rely

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

  Donna Farhi

  Meaningful, Attention, Care

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.15, Macmillan

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