Action Quotes - Page 14

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

I don't act; I react.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action!

Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.