Our Actions Quotations

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

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

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

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.

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

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.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

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

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

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.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

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.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

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.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

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

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

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

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

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

As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

I think we validate our lives through our actions.

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

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

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.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

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

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

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

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

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.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

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

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

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.

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