Quotes About Action

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

Faith spawns reflexive steps of obedience. It steps out. We must not imagine that we have faith if we do not obey.

The single most important way to win over panic attacks is to respond to them from a different point of view. To get better, you don't struggle with anxiety, you don't try to get rid of the uncomfortable sensations, you don't avoid threatening situations. You choose to take a different attitude toward them. With this new attitude in place, you will know what actions to take.

When faced with a challenge (be it a hurricane or a struggling business or a reluctance to start writing), we must decide to act and then we must act. We should perceive our worries as an indication that we should meet our challenges head on, cut right to the heart of them, and take action. Otherwise, we'll be in the aftermath of the storm, sitting and staring at that old tree that's collapsed onto our patio, and asking, "Well, what now?

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

Padauža išsyk atkreip? ginkl? ? mane. Vargšelis visas tirt?jo, prakaitas liejosi kaip iš kibiro, tod?l labai jau išmintingai nutariau, kad pistoletas neužtaisytas ir man tik reikia j? atimti. Pirmoji kulka pataik? ? pilv? ir ištašk? ? skutus vis? mano teorij?.

Chanakya says that like rain serves no purpose over a sea, a candle is useless in daylight, it is useless to feed a person who is not hungry and give alms to a rich person. Chanakya says that rain is required in fields and candle is required in darkness; food must be fed to a hungry person and alms must be given to the poor.

Talent by itself does nothing but make a bit of noise.

je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

A number of years ago, I heard Rabbi Wolpe tell a story of a man asking God when God would send someone to save their city. God replied I did. I sent you. What is this story? and who was talking to God?

Passivity breeds anxiety. To be healthy, a person needs to be having an impact on his surroundings, uplifting those about him and bringing in more light - Rabbi M.M. Schneerson

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do.

We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the door open.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters.

Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am aware, and the time of offering go by. Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.