Action Quotes

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

If you want a thing done go - if not send.

Action is eloquence.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

God helps them that helps themselves.

Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.

If people are suffering then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

Justice is truth in action.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.

And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.

Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire.

The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.

Peace is the foundation of yoga. Karma yoga is the effort for bringing peace and happiness in the world.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions.

Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

Action achieves ambition.

Every action either teaches you or blesses you.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.