Our Actions Quotations | Page 2

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

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

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?

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

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

Our actions determine our dispositions.

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

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

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

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

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

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

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

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.

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.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

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.

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

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

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.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.