Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
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 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.
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.
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
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 our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.
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.
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
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.
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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.
. . . the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
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.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
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.
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there. "