You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of the work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.
Bhagavad Gita – Action, Reward
No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.
Bhagavad Gita – Duty, Action
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita – Action, Wisdom
(Attachement to the fruits of action) binds a person to continual rebirth.
Bhagavad Gita – Action, Rebirth
Action is greater than inaction. Perform therefore thy task in life. Even the life of the body could not be if there were no action.
Bhagavad Gita – Action is greater than inaction
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
Bhagavad Gita – Action, Nature
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler – Action, Thought
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Seneca – Action, Will
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca – Action
All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation.
Michel de Montaigne – Action, Interpretation
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne – Action
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau – Action
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot – Action, Deed
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Henry David Thoreau – Action, Success
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.
