Quotes About Action

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

threefold purity—no big deal about the doer, no big deal about the action, no big deal about the result. This joyful exertion is rooted in no expectation, no ambition, no hope of fruition.

every action has a result.

It's up to you how the law of karma all works out.

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

If spiritual practice is relaxing, if it gives us some peace of mind, that's great—but is this personal satisfaction helping us to address what's happening in the world?

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.

When a thing's happened to you it's no good shoving it away and pretending it hasn't. You can go off your head that way.' 'Battles?' 'Not just battles,' said Bill with a snort. 'Most of us don't get mixed up with battles, do we? Anything. Everything.' Everything? 'It's what you do about things that makes you the kind of bloke you are,' said Bill.

Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

The quickness of his hand was determined by the quickness of his eye.

Those who pursue the process of living are those who create the history

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg.

And then he raised the welder to his face and flicked the switch.

but offered him nothing beyond that. Dodger, for his part, would remove

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Converting a decision into action requires answering several distinct questions: Who has to know of this decision? What action has to be taken? Who is to take it? And what does the action have to be so that the people who have to do it can do it? The first and the last of these are too often overlooked—with dire results.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.