Action Quotes

Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up. That's a pretty simple action.

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

Change is an action not just an epiphany!

The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales.

If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.

When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.

Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.