Quotes About Action

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

Don't stay watching happiness, make it.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Happiness is activity.

Happiness is a sort of action.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

We must be doing something to be happy.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.