Action Quotes - Page 64

Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The Universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe.

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Whatever you believe and mentally create, you can have.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.