Action Quotes - Page 24

• Action and becoming are one.

  Meister Eckhart

  Acting, Becoming

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• The food of hope is meditative action.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.

  Adam West

  Dream, Vision, Use

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• Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Our Actions, Results

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

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• Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Determination, Reflection, Mind

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• We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Grief, Healing

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• Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Ideas, World, Changed

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Courage, Determination, Swimming

  Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Standing Alone, Deliberation

  Charles de Gaulle (1959). “War Memoirs”

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• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Book, Ideas

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.152, Lantern Books

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• Make history or be a part of it.

  Phil Knight

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• It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Energy

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• Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Selfless

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• Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhist, Today

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Rewards, Results

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Years, Lifetime

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• What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Situations In Life, Done

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• The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Causes

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Causes, Rebirth

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Gone, Results

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• My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Independent, Problem

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mean, Reality

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Interesting, Most Interesting

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