Quotes About Action

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

Don't agonise, organise.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

They don't see what they're doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who's saved? Who's not?

But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn't go, one day I'd look back and wonder, What if I had?

But my main motivation is fear of regret.

A man is what he does every day," said Emerson.

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.

She is so busy just BEING, talking, walking, making love, drinking, that she can achieve nothing else.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Le bonheur n'est pas une chose; c'est une pensée. Ce n'est pas un fait; c'est une invention. Ce n'est pas un état; c'est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[...] C'est une praxis, disait- Aristote, et point une poiésis.