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Action Quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar
- Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
- Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
- When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot…
- Action is movement with intelligence
- One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line.…
- Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.…
- Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there…
- He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with…
- Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self…
- Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle