Quotes About Action

Do the thing and you will have the power.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain

Inspiring passion and action—this is the test of true preaching. True preaching is practical—concerned with day-to-day living in light of the soul. It's focus is not on the distant past or an imaginary future, but on the here and now.

Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Do the things you fear to do and death of fear will be certain.

Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Dios no verá su trabajo hecho por cobardes. Un hombre está satisfecho y contento cuando ha puesto su corazón en su trabajo y ha hecho lo mejor que puede; pero cuando no actúe o hable en coherencia con esto, no tendrá paz.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right/

These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;

It has been said, that "common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are.

El viaje menos complicado del mejor barco velero, está compuesto de un conjunto de zigzags. Pero si miras la línea de su trayectoria desde una distancia lo suficientemente lejana, notarás que, en general, siempre se ha mantenido en la dirección dominante del destino. Tu acción genuina se explicará por sí misma, y explicará tus otras acciones genuinas.

What I must do is all that concerns me

Character The sun set, but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat.

We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births."—Buddha

The optimum strategy is to act as if we have free choice and to choose always that which we feel is most in harmony with the way of things.

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply inner connected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.

Gurdjieff used to say, "If you can serve a cup of tea properly, you can do anything." That is, if you are able to perform any act in a true karma-yogic fashion, it's because you're acting from a place where you're free of attachments and not busy being the actor—and being in that place will shape every act you do.