Action Quotes
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride but when we attempt to steer the course the momentum dies.
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
Coercive power is the curse of the universe coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.
O golden Silence bid our souls be still and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall Some are coming some are going Do not strive to grasp them all.
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
We are the wire God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.
Much that I sought I could not find much that I found I could not bind much that I bound I could not free much that I freed returned to me.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.
Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.