Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 151
Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Epicurus
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.
Stephen Batchelor
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
James Joyce
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
Sam Mendes
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
Don't stumble over something behind you.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
John Locke
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
Joseph Alsop
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied
Cyril Connolly
