Non Action Quotes

#1. Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Laozi

#2. There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Benjamin Mkapa

#3. The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that is the Master's way.

Lao-Tzu

#4. By non-action everything can be done.

Anonymous

#5. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Martha Beck

#6. Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Ethan Hawke

#8. Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

Laozi

#9. The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Lu Yen-hsun

#10. Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#11. Practice non-action. Work without doing.

Laozi

#12. There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

John C. Calhoun

#13. You are making a difference in Life. Whether or not you realize it, every action, every re-action, or every non-action impacts Life. The question to ask yourself is not whether you are making a difference, but whether that difference is positive or negative.

Donald L. Hicks

#14. Having arrived at this point of non-action, there is nothing which he does not do.

Lao-Tzu

#15. A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

Laozi

#16. Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Julian Assange

#17. Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

Armstrong Williams

#18. When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Caroline Lucas

#19. Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Aristotle.

#20. I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.

Bob Newhart

#21. The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

Russell Eric Dobda

#23. There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, non-property, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.

Ayn Rand

#24. Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.

Gillian Armstrong

#25. The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

Sathya Sai Baba

#26. And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

Hannah Arendt

#27. 3. War Peace & Action -
3B.02 LOVE & PEACE
Hatred goes not by hatred,
Violence not by violence,
Disappear hatred and violence,
By love, understanding, non-violence.
[241] - 3B

Munindra Misra

#28. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

Kevin Martin

#29. It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters ... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

Joss Whedon

#30. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#31. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Abdul Kalam

#32. What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#33. All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Sienna Miller

#34. Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

Cesar Chavez

#35. Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Jon Scieszka

#36. Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

CLAMP

#37. Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

Sathya Sai Baba

#38. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#39. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

M. Scott Peck