Our Actions Quotes - Page 2

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

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

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

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.

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

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

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our 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.

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

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

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.

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

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.