Action Quotes - Page 86

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Intention without action is useless.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions.

Infuse your life with action.

We all work with one infinite power.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm.