Action Quotes - Page 2

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.

Anonymous

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

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.

Alice Caldwell Rice

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.

Lao Tzu

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel

For peace of mind resign as general manager of the universe.

Anonymous

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by its own fullness not by its reception.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick W. Robertson

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.

sue atchley ebaugh

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Euripides

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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.

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.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe coactive power the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

Mary Parker Follett

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.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.

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.

Natalie Goldberg

When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.

God helps them that helps themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

He will hew the line of right let the chips fall where they may.

Roscoe Conkling

You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin

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

Leonardo da Vinci

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Agatha Christie

On God for all events depend You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best Leave to your Maker all the rest.

Nathaniel Cotton

You yourself must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers.

Buddhist proverb

There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!

General Peter Muhlenberg

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

It is not yours to finish the task but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Anonymous

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest do not worry.

Charles F. Deems

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.

Abraham Lincoln

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Gerald Jampolsky

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

Swahili proverb

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

Confucius

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

Donald G. Mitchell

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

Life happens at the level of events not words.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Right action is the key to good living.

Twelve Steps and

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

If faith without works is dead willingness without action is fantasy.

Anonymous

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Francis

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

Anonymous

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.

Mary McDermott Shideler

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracián

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Anonymous

God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Trust in God and do something.

Mary Lyon

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