Quotes about Action

Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action.

Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful.

Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?”
 
My answer is “Because that's what love does.”  To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day wiith drool running down her chin.

My experience is the opposite.

Love is action.

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”

If your life's story were written, would you read it?

Life is what you make it will your story have a peak, a conflict, suspence, action, a climax, and a conclusion? Or will you live your life keeping it safe and never taking any risks?  Ask yourself: if your life story were written, would you read it?

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

There is no mystery about what the future holds. Your actions today determine youe consequences tomorrow.

Those who talk the talk should be able walk the walk.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is ACTION. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a thousand books.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

Sacrifice is love in action.

Imagine having the courage to take a risk, play the odds, be the person who invests in the unknown and ends up winning. Caroline Myss

To be, or not. To be! That is the question!

Borders, governments and the constant need to define ourselves by our differences (human judgement) is the greatest enemy of peace. The awareness that we are all human and the realisation that our greatest similarity is to love and to forgive, is our greatest tool for unity & calm.

"The greatest challenge we face today is not global warming or wars or the energy crisis, its apathy."

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.

Get action. Seize the moment.
Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or principle.

The most decisive actions in our life... are most often unconsidered actions.

There was never a consequence so great as the regret of inaction.