Our Actions Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Community

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• What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Thinking, Influence

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• Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Attitude, Heart, Soul

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  Naum Gabo

  Law, Events, World

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.

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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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• The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

  George Eliot

  Action, Communicate, Right Words

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.204, Penguin

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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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• Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Wish, Lord

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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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• Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

  L. Tom Perry

  Conform, Value Systems, Values

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• Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.

  Henri Nouwen

  Strong, Real, Humility

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• Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Evil, Goodness, Impulse

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

  Hesiod

  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Way, Determine, Effects

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2011). “Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil

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