Quotes on Action

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.