Action Quotes - Page 35

• You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Love Someone, Meaningless

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

  Charles Hummel

  Motivational, Loss, Light

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• It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Sanskrit

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

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• To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Actors

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• We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Body, Persons

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• This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Gita

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• Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mind

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• Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Compassion

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• Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Waiting, Mind

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• Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Motivation, Successful

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• Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity

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• To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Choices, Desire

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• Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Mind, Existence

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• Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Moving, Apology

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• One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Assessment, Needs

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• People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Don't Change

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• I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.

  Cub Swanson

  Thinking, Mma, What You Deserve

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Mean, Attention

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• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Our Actions, Waste

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• Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.163, SIU Press

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• The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Ends, Knows

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 153), March 6, 1995.

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• In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Art, Thinking, One Direction

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