Our Actions Quotes - Page 4

Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

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

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

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.