Best loss & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“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.”

“I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.”

Believe Hands Action Purpose Loss Behinds Greater Too Much Plans Sacrifice Divine Hands Of God Divine Purpose

Author:Neil Abramson

“A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.”

Firsts Wells States Moments Light Would Be Action Loss Negative Pressure Suggestions Equilibrium Right Moment Rudders Negative Actions

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.”

Humans Action Loss Global Warming Collectives Transforming Biodiversity Human Actions Biosphere

Author:Martin Rees

“The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.”

Action Opportunity Loss Scholar Grudge American Scholar

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.”

Knows World Soul Running Action Past Lying Opportunity Loss Keys Shadow Wide Attraction Scholar My Thoughts Grudge Tumult

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).”

Way Action Loses Loss Each Day Followers Tao Arriving

Author:Laozi

“There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.”

Action Loss Risk Military Activity Hazards Inactivity

Author:Robert E. Lee

“War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.”

Ifs Men Mean War States Action Values Evil Sides Loss Safe Permanent Submit Submission Your Side Hold Fast Evil Things Dictation

Author:Thucydides

“Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.”

Soul Action Loss Arms Balance Reactions Upset Equilibrium Flailing

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.”

“We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.”

Action Loss Ought Police Investigation Transparent

Author:Mike Pence

“I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.”

Thinking Enough Moments Action Opportunity Loss Tragedy Police Bias Law Enforcement Accusation

Author:Mike Pence

“The difference between "winners" and "losers" is not whether they face obstacles and setbacks - we all do, and it is inevitable that plans do not unfold exactly as imagined or that unexpected events surprise us or that a few mistakes happen. The real difference is that "winners" bounce back from a fumble or a loss by refusing to panic, analyzing the situation and looking for positive actions they can take to correct the problem, and then go on to resume winning.”

Real Problem Action Winning Loss Mistake Situation Surprise Obstacles Inevitable Winner Unexpected Loser Setback

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The only cure for grief is action.”

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.”

Stories Bigs Action Political Loss Exciting Longing Love Story Dependent Thrillers Soulful

Author:Rachel Weisz

“We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.”

Men Doe Made Important Use Action Suffering Loss Laughing Greater Mad Insult Grants Melancholy Links Despise Defects Veins Flattery Scorn Deficiency Gaiety

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?”

Ifs Should Children Doe Action Faces Law Mother Wish Loss Husband Sick Suicide Moved Extremes Commit Branches Leap Nurse Acceptable Laws Of Nature Cliffs Widows Loss Of A Child Caretakers

Author:Lisa See

“If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.”

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