Quotes About Action

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

It is better to act right than seek right.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.