5,384 Quotes About Action

Every action (‘doing’) causes bondage. ‘Doing’ is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, ‘action’ of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Knowledge cannot win over experience because at the end of the day what matter is what you did with your hand not what you know in your mind.

Words speak to the mind through the ears; actions speak to the mind through the eye

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

There is no knowing, only doing.

We are the sum of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.