Our Actions Quotes - Page 14

• There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

  George Washington

  Destiny, Effort, Human Nature

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1769). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.288

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• For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

  Barack Obama

  Fate, Our World, Justice

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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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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• As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

  Horace Bushnell

  Long, Broken, Christ

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.269

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• God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  God, Soul, Desire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 257, 1895.

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• Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.

  Hilda Solis

  Real, Struggle, Fighting

  "Immigrant's daughter Solis to lead Labor Dept". International Business Times, December 19, 2008.

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• All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Independent, Men, Law

  William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7

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• If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.

  Max Horkheimer

  Thinking, Views, Goal

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.

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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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• We wanted to touch them with our action.

  Connie Sellecca

  Action, Wanted

  "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Roberts, www.cbn.com.

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pride, Past, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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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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• Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Moving, Selfishness, Principles

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• There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

  Moliere

  Heart, Secret, Action

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• Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Action, Immortality, Glorious

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Other Worlds, Vices

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.464

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• By wit we search divine aspect above,
  By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
  By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
  By wit we govern all our actions;
  Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
  Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

  Robert Greene

  Yield, Secret, Mind

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.319

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• Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

  Starhawk

  Rain, Flower, Wind

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Moving, Use, Body

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  Lisa Unger

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.723, Crown

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• Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

  Nadya Suleman

  Believe, Choices, Behavior

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• Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Empathy, Risk, Vision

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• It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

  James Sharp

  Principles, Honest, Vain

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