Action Quotes - Page 78

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

The more you give away, the more you get back.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Nothing quells anxiety like action!

Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.

Make your best thoughts into action.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.