Action Quotes - Page 50

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

You should always be aware that your head creates your world.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

If you look really carefully, when it comes to the Secret, the power or our mind, the power of our intention in our daily lives, it's all around us. All we gotta do is open our eyes and look.

There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

The burned hand teaches best.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Whenever you're in doubt about any action, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? You can also ask, what would love do now?

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game