Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 314
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.
Kenneth G. Wilson
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.
F. Sionil José
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
Richard Sibbes
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
Cameron Dokey
Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.
Josephine Tey
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
David Platt
If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul
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.
