Our Actions Quotes - Page 10

• What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

  Tony Robbins

  Attitude, Focus, Mind

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• Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Perseverance, Art, Real

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• Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Giving, Effort

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: August 1646-March 1650”

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• We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Benefits, Helping

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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

  Aristotle

  Differences, Action, Habit

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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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• Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Taken, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

  Tara Brach

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.207, Random House

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• If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.

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  Ram Dass

  Struggle, Being Positive, Needs

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• If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Joy, Everyday

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• 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

  Sex, Boys, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

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

  Thomas Sankara

  Effort, Our Words, Behavior

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Integrity, Responsibility, Our Society

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

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Coherence

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

  Josh Charles

  Wind, People, Community

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• Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Way, Responsible, Stills

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• Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teacher, True Friend, Choices

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• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

  Aristotle

  Order, Would Be, Purpose

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Charity, Emotion, Intellect

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• Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, May, Knows

  "How One Blue Sweater Started A Book Club And Changed Lives" by Jacqueline Novogratz, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2010.

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• We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mind, Lord, Worthy

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• 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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