Actions Quotes
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.
We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.'
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
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