Quotes About Action

As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.

There will be time to mourn, Langdon told himself, fighting back intense emotion. Now is the time for action.

Knowledge is a tool and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user

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The time for action has come. Not until we purge our species of superstitious thinking can we embrace all that our minds have to offer.

Langdon frowned at his own apparently inferior phone. Just then Ambra reached over and gently pried it from his hands. Without a word, she held it over the railing and let go. Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it disappeared beneath the surface, he felt a pang of loss, staring back after it as the boat raced on

Get the hell out of here!

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency

Iactura paucorum serva multos.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

You don't need to control emotion," he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Use whatever knowledge you have but see its limitations. Knowledge alone does not suffice; it has no heart. No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit; it can never bring you ultimate happiness or peace. Life requires more than knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive.

Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That's the body's secret of internal alchemy.

Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does.

secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do.

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results.

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

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He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.

Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.