Quotes About Action

that acknowledgment, applause, and honor are welcome and add zest to life but they are not ends to be pursued. I felt then, as I do now, that what matters is what you do and how you do it, the quality of the time you spend, and the people you share it with.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

If we have to translate it, wu-wei is probably best rendered as something like "effortless action" or spontaneous action.

I SHALL PROCEED WITH MY CASE AS MY LAWYER HAS ADVISED ME!

Only when we are convinced, like Mary was, of how little we can really do on our own and how utterly dependent we are on God can the Lord begin to act in magnificent ways in us and through us.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

It's not the power you possess, but using the power of the opposition against itself that changes things. It's called political jujitsu [an Alinsky phrase]. You must go outside the opponent's [Big Boys] experience. You aim the action for the inevitable reaction, knowing that the reaction is more important than your action itself.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

When you want to get out, get out.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

A mistake is a physical action; whereas, an idea, wrong or right, is a state of mind, as that context; Whatever mistakes never lie in ideas, whether old, or new that constitute career, future, and a way of life in every system of society; however, ideas can be a risk, but not a mistake. Otherwise, the civilized world was not as it is today.

A uniform does not show that you are a patriot and nor prove that until you do it with your practice.

Accordingly, as principles and rules, such resolutions, whatever context holds that execute nothing if that cannot enforce the action without distinctions.

An unnatural action holds unnatural reaction; indeed, it affirms and displays a penalty, not the immunity.

Before a journey, never comes a destination Before action, never exists a reaction Before the question, never happens the answer Before the attack, never occurs retaliation Before distinctions, never arises hatred Before the examination, never appears a result Before flowers, never fragrances, fragrance

Before action, realize and estimate its outcome; it shows a clear picture of risks, for deciding accurately.

Duty can be then when something exists and has to do.

Enhance actions, to enhance your prospects and projects of life.