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“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.”

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Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.”

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”

Way Years Motivational Action Alive Risk Fronts Television Sitting Deny Inaction Taking Action Four Agreements Living Fully

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.”

Giving Feels Motivational Action Community Be Good Our Family Productive Live Your Life Doing Your Best Giving Yourself

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.”

Motivational Action Meaningless Love Someone

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.”

“It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.”

Inspirational Seems Action Humanity Essentials Yesterday Release Extinction Rationale Fixation

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.”

Knows Mean Action Buddhism Dharma Sanskrit

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”

World Self Action Actors Realizing Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.”

Persons Body Action Yoga Affected Inaction Transitory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.”

Ifs Wells Might Action Yoga Karma Krishna Karma Yoga Gita

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.”

Mind States Action Higher Yoga Patterns Karma Welfare State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.”

Way Giving Feels Should Helping Action Certain Results Compassion Yoga Concerned Infinite Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.”

Inspirational Mind States Action Waiting State Of Mind

Author:Jon Jones

“Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.”

People Inspirational Action Motivation Successful Successful People

Author:Jon Jones

“Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.”

Thinking Action Nations Changed Humility Buddhism Shapes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.”

Action Buddhism Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.”

Action Desire Choices Difficult Buddhism Pure Liberation Purity Enslavement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.”

Mind Action Existence Perception Perceive Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.”

Want Action Moving Women Reflection Acknowledge Apology Bully

Author:Amy Dickinson

“One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.”

Needs Action Women Benefits Exes Divorced Assessment Appropriateness Your Ex

Author:Amy Dickinson

“People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.”

People Action Women Acknowledge Don't Change People Don't Change

Author:Amy Dickinson

“I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.”

Thinking Should Kind Persons Shows Action Deserve Mma What You Deserve

Author:Cub Swanson

“Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.”

Giving Real Action Energy Study Teacher Teaching Giving Up Creating Intention Deeds Accomplished Never Giving Up Meditating Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.”

Feels Mean States Action Attention Teaching Higher Supposed To Be Catalyst

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Different Action Chance Intelligent Response Observation Suggestions Emancipation Inference Fatality

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ends Action

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Important Action Difficult Possibility Ought Sitting Organization Discussion Not Sure Fence One Direction Which Way To Go

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

Inspirational Writing Action Tongue Checks Cash

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”

People Thinking Action Easy Laughing Cry Harder Load Reflexes

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.”

People Action Community Football Responsible Reputation Hold Me

Author:Sepp Blatter

“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.”

Ifs Feels Looks Ideas Different Done Action Film Sides Fiction Steps Comedy Science Fiction Unusual Action Films

Author:Guy Pearce

“I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.”

Whole Action Honest Television Jokes

Author:Nick Offerman

“Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.”

People Thinking Way Stills Action Pain Suffering Choices Challenges Positive Thinking Suffering And Pain

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

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Author:Lauren Mackler

“Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.”

Feelings Action Common Steps Break Too Much Down And Reactions Overwhelming Procrastination Overwhelmed Fear Of Failure Small Actions Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.”

People Action Busy Pursue Productive Taking Action Being Busy Keep Busy

Author:Lauren Mackler

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.”

Knows Action Belief Change Perception Codependent Action And Change

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”

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Author:Krista Tippett

“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”

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Book:Picnic at Hanging Rock

Source: Picnic at Hanging Rock

“You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.”

Life Action Prayer Marriage Study Praying Tests Active Celestial Doings

Author:Tad R. Callister

“Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.”

Action Position

Author:Jeff Olson

“A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life.”

Philosophy Action Turns Results Attitude Lifestyle Positive Attitude Positive Life Positive Results

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.”

People Book Reason Action Courses Diets

Book:The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.”

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Author:Kevin Garnett

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