Our Actions Quotes - Page 17

• ...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Choices, Saved, Destroyed

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• Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

  Elizabeth George

  Children, Mistake, Wish

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• If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Alternatives, Want, Appearance

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.157, Bantam

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• I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.

  Wendy Mass

  School, Kids, Home

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

  P. C. Cast

  Color, Choices, Parent

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.273, Macmillan

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• We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Finals, Generations, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Thinking, Decision

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• ‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Dream, Integrity, Reading

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• I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

  Robert Ringer

  Spiritual, Believe, Results

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Anger, Wine, Order

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• The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Our Words, Lines

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• Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mean, Hands, Difficult Situations

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

  Jane Austen

  World, Source, Novel

  "Fictional character: Jane Austen". "Becoming Jane", 2007.

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• In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.

  Beau Biden

  Philosophy, Mean, College

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• Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Real, People, Intention

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

  Margaret of Valois

  Joy, Soul, Sorrow

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• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Pace, Currents, Given

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• All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Moving, Illusion

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• Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

  John Ortberg

  Belief, Guides, Instruments

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Magic, Needs, Flow

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Confused, Struggle, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Order, Ice, Civilization

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