Action Quotes - Page 82

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

Actions are more precious than words

Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Justice is the truth in action.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.