If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
We should be as careful of our words as 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.
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.
We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.
Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.
History, that is to be written tomorrow. . . to be read by our children. . . to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
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.
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
