"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable."

Action, Actions, Effect, Ignorance

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable."

Exlpore more Action quotes

"Life is filled with endless opportunities. You must search for the opportunities. Seize every opportunity and make it great."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Action, Seize, Opportunities, Endless, Life

"Don't go to sleep to dream. Wake up and dream."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Action, Dreams, Wake-up, Life

"Dreaming is beautiful but actions makes it a reality that unfolds its true beauty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Action, Dream, Beauty, Reality

"Act, not for results, just for action.Give, not for appreciation, just to help.Be kind, not for something in return, just to love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Action, Giving, Kindness, Love

"Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Action, Words, Deeds, Success

"Go, send, or disobey."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Action, Obedience, Choice, Faith

"Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure."

Richie Norton, American Author

Action, Perfectionism, Procrastination, Cure

"To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Action, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom, Truth

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Action, Today, Tomorrow

"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Action, Today, Wisdom, Power, Truth

Explore more quotes by Andrew Cohen

"Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever."

Nature, Difference, Gender

"When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain."

Awareness, Being, Gender, Self

"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias."

Liberation, Gender, Man, Woman

"The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly."

Maneuvered, Result

"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."

Cultural, Gender

"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."

Fear, Ideas, Anxiety, Being

"Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity."

Experience, Men, Women, Idea

"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."

Change,

"There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life."

Life, Nothing

"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."

Experience, Sense