Quotes About Action

If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we're doing now.

Whatever you're given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That's the challenge of now: What are you going to do with what you have already—your body, your speech, your mind?

What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

The third reminder is karma: every action has a result. One could give a whole seminar on the law of karma. But fundamentally, in our everyday life, it's a reminder that it's important how we live.

The law of karma is that we sow the seeds and we reap the fruit.

The more we connect with a bigger perspective, the more we connect with energetic joy. Exertion is touching in to our appetite for enlightenment. It allows us to act, to give, to work appreciatively with whatever comes our way.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

Don't get mad get even.

Anger is action without thoughts.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

We must reinforce argument with results.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.