Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.
Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
A good teacher teaches through words. A Great teacher teaches through actions. A good teacher is appreciated. A great teacher is emulated.
It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.
People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
La gente que no puede confiar son ellos mismos no confiables, y por lo tanto, no se les puede confiar cosas importantes.
Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.
El Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.
He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.
To Him who has sense, a sign is enough For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands
Don’t think about those who are not doing it. Focus on your dreams, goals and actions and make sure it is done well.
Action is the means through which the intangible becomes tangible.
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
