Action Quotes - Page 117

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

It is important to pray for peace. . . But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Shareholder value gets lost when things are done illegally, when corporate governance is not adhered to, when cohesive action is not taken.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.