Quotes About Action

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

You know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy.

They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

Our actions are part of who we are. It's not that we are inert things who do stuff. Rather, the stuff we do and who we are are inextricably woven together.

Not-being-a-jerk means this and that are done, and now you gotta do the other thing. It's an ongoing process. Haku

At every moment, no matter what we're doing, we need to understand that not being a jerk is how someone becomes enlightened. This state has always belonged to us. Cause and effect makes us act. By not being a jerk now, you create the cause of not being a jerk in the future. Our action is not predestined, nor does it spontaneously occur.

It's just that sometimes we try to make whatever we're doing into whatever we imagine its ideal state to be. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail. But in real action we transcend any notion of an idealized state. Even if we carry that idealized idea in our heads, it doesn't matter. We just do what we do.

But the past and future do exist. They exist right here, right now. We are the expression of our past, and our actions now create our future. Past and future are intimately present with us at this real moment.

In Buddhist theory, action exists first and because action happens, the people and things that do that action appear. It's weird, I know.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now. Sometimes compassion may even mean doing nothing at all. Lots of loving people in this world go out of their way to "try to help"--but often they do more harm than good. Stupid helpfulness is not compassion either.

Changes in belief always precede changes in behavior.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Perception without awareness is the culprit that leads to confusion.Awareness without action is the culprit that leads to stagnation.Action without commitment is the culprit that leads to frustration.

Remember without self, there can be no selfless acts. Take care, nurture and challenge your self so you can expand the act of selfless action.

I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!

Put down your hollow tips, And kiss your lover's lips, And know that fate is what we make of it.

Are you a witch?" "A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions." "This seems like something a witch would do.

The man threw down his hoe and ran.

When jumping is the sole option, you jump.