Action Quotes - Page 24

There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.

The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Go and wake up your cook.

We need to study the Word of God diligently. But we don't need to know more. We need to do more with what we know. At the end of the day, God will not say, "Well thought, Intellectual," or "Well said, Orator." There is only one commendation: "Well done, good and faithful servant!

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs.

The two Weres circle each other, a bench between them. Suddenly, Cody lurched at Diego, grabbing him by the shirt, spinning him and slamming him into the wall causing bricks from the building to fall.

You are dead, you know!” he screeched delightedly, “Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!

Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.

Nothing is born into this world without labor.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

Working hard alone without being smart and consistent won’t lead to success.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

Wisdom allows you to decide how best to apply yourself to get the most return on your time and energy invested.

Trust in God and do something.

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.

I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know like I know, that the door to this opportunity will one day get weakened by the forces of my attempts, and breaks wide open for me to get in.

You have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It's time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let's see it and give it a name!

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The actions of man’s thoughts are similar to the action of a magnet.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Success is built on what you are able to see and create with your mind.

Success comes as a result of working towards fulfilling your potential and closing the gap between who you are now and who you are capable of becoming.

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear

The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.

I’ve learned, Agent Sanders, most warriors feel the same way after they’ve come back from the battles where men in expensive suits and leather chairs send them. We keep asking and asking you to do the impossible and even when you succeed it seems the world doesn’t change all that much. Don’t let that diminish your sacrifice, and that of your family waiting at home. Your country is proud of you.

In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

The road to success is always under construction.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

The difference between those who achieve their dreams and those who don’t is in their ability to see not only with their eyes but also their minds.

Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.

Your dreams become your destiny when your plans become your actions!

Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.

You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured right from the start.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.

Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!