Quotes and Sayings About Our Actions
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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
-- Alan Watts -
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
-- Albert Bandura -
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
-- Andrew McCutchen -
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.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
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.
-- Aristotle -
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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?
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood -
What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.
-- Billy Graham -
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
-- Bob GoffSource : FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 13, 2013
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Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ,
-- Clayton Kershaw -
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We wanted to touch them with our action.
-- Connie SelleccaSource : "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Roberts, www.cbn.com.
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We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.
-- Dalai Lama -
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
-- David Jeremiah -
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
-- David Platt -
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Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
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 -
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
-- Elizabeth of the Trinity -
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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.
-- Eric Kandel -
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
-- Francis Chan -
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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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.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
-- Gary Zukav