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172 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
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"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."
"If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good."
"There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions."
"If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions."
"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."
"ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."
"Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior."
"If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so."
"We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions."
"Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases."
"The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action."
"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."
"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."
