Our Actions Quotes - Page 5

• We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.

  George W. Bush

  Impact, Climate, Know How

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.162, M.E. Sharpe

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• I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

  Anais Nin

  Hate, Believe, Judging

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• We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

  Arthur Golden

  Moving, Fighting, Use

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.127, Random House

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

  Kathryn Lasky

  Character, Blood, Made

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• The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Karma, Claims, Indifferent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.283, Modern Library

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• I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  War, Wind, Car

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• But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Blood, Trying

  Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

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• Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
  We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Dream, Peace, War

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• That which holds our attention determines our action.

  Prince William

  Motivation, Vision, Attention

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• Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Self, Perfect

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• No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation--need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.

  Salman Ahmad

  Sex, Fighting, People

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Attitude, Determine, Bad Attitude

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• There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Liberty, Accepting, Harm

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• It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

  Tony Robbins

  Basketball, Impact, Important

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  Stephen Hawking

  Good Life, Science, Should

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Lonely, Distance

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• When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Water, Benefits, Bread

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  History, Made, Difficult

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.19, Best Books on

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• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

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• Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, Experience, Compromise

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• There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Ethics, Harm

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