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Actions Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our…
- Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest…
- Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have…
- The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. — Abu Bakr
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson