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.
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.
We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.
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.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
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 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.
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
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.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
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.
Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
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.
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.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
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.
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.