A Quotes
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“Action that is clearly right needs no justification.”
Source: On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World
“Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.”
“Action This Day!”
“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Action to me is something very fun to shoot.”
“Action triggers reaction.
An object somehow responds when we observe it.
We just assume that we do objective.
In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts
of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.”
“Action was life, even if it ended in death”
Source: From Sand and Ash
“Action will
delineate and
define you.”
“Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“Action will destroy your procrastination.”
“Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.”
Source: Clough: Selected Poems
“Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.”
“Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.”
Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs
“Action without compassion is like planting a dead tree. It will never grow. But any action that contains compassion is planting a living tree that grows endlessly and never dies. Or even if the tree dies, it always leaves a seed behind, which will grow into another tree. That organic quality of compassion goes on and on and on.”
“Action without heart is meaningless.”
Source: Steelstriker
“Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“Action without intent is a waste of effort.”
“Action without intention is action without direction. It is ineffective and lacking in credibility. It may also lack your basic integrity. Search for your principles within, always realizing that they are meant to define your presence in the world. Ask your heart and your intuition what would be your best presence in the world. Be ready for the answer and do not waiver in your desire to be your real self.”
“Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”
“Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.”
“Action without study is fatal.”
“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”
“Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.”
“Action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the world as it really is, can never improve anything.”
“Action Yoga (Sonnet 1030)
If you love the idea of yoga,
Then be a karma yogi,
Without all that nonsense of,
“Be kind and you'll be treated kindly”.
Silently do your duty as a human being,
With zero expectation for praise and reward.
Kindness with expectation is kindness ruined,
True goodness expects nothing in return.
Karma means duty, yoga means union,
Lose yourself in goodness, and you'll find unity.
In this age of reason only yogi is the one,
Who is one with the world in humanitarian duty.
Silent kindness is sacred kindness.
The ancients called it karma yoga, I call it humanness.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.”
“Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.”
“Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.”
“Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them”
“Actions are destiny's pen.”
“Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .”
Source: The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides
“Actions are far better than advertisements.”
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.”
Source: Dhalgren
“Actions are like cloths. Some wear it dirty, some
wear it clean, some wear it bigger than normal
and some smaller than their size. Some overdress
themselves, and some wear it bringing the inside
to the outside and the outside to the inside! Some
wear it to scare and some to win admiration!
Some wear it sincerely and some wear it
deceptively. No matter what, we shall always
wear this cloth and we shall always leave footprints because of it: actions!”
Source: Pills For Heathy Life
“Actions are more precious than words”
“Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with”
“Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.”
Source: Winning with People Workbook
“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Actions are the answer, born of a heart of grace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .”
Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms
“Actions are the seed of destiny.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Actions are the true words of the heart.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Actions are visible, though motives are secret.”
Source: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
“Actions are worth more than thousands of words.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Actions are worthy. They show thought and courage behind the effort.”
“Actions can be evil: the inversion of truth, power inflicted on the powerless, violence on the full spectrum of psychological to physical, subtle to unsubtle: all these acts, in the right context, can be defined as evil.”
Source: Life As A Kite