Action Quotes - Page 24

• Action and becoming are one.

  Meister Eckhart

  Acting, Becoming

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• Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

  James Van Fleet

  Imagination, Daydreaming, Initiative

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.36, Penguin

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• Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

  Adam West

  Dream, Vision, Use

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• Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Our Actions, Results

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• Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Determination, Reflection, Mind

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

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• We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Grief, Healing

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• Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Ideas, World, Changed

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Courage, Determination, Swimming

  Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Standing Alone, Deliberation

  Charles de Gaulle (1959). “War Memoirs”

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• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Book, Ideas

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.152, Lantern Books

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• Make history or be a part of it.

  Phil Knight

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• Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

  Thomas Lickona

  Integrity, Heart, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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• Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Gratitude, Sacrifice

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• If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, People, Judging

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• But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

  William Ralph Inge

  Powerful, Men, Average

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

  John the Apostle

  Brother, Children, Doe

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• I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

  Ivan Illich

  Believe, Independent, Technology

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• Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Responsibility, Government, Names

  Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

  Herbert Schiller

  Communication, Mean, America

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• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.171

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• Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Trying

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Mindfulness

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