Quotes About Action

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

God loves only one philosophy, And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy.

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.