Quotes About Action

Es el mal algo que uno es? ¿O es algo que uno hace?

Some of them moved to the desert or wilderness, seeking to create monastic communities where faith expressing itself in love could be experimented with as the norm. Others formed schools and missions or launched new congregations, orders, and movements, translating their spiritual breakthrough into compassionate organizing and action.

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

Why can't we admit that focusing on getting our words and beliefs right has not succeeded in helping us be good?

The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, "There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be outraged; a time to be tolerant and a time to stand up and say, 'I'm not going to take this anymore.'" The challenge for all fighters, of course, is to be sure they find out what is now truly worth fighting against, and then to be sure they have something that is truly worth fighting for.

Nock's "plan of action" was "a plan of no action at all. To Nock there was clearly only one path to follow, and that was to learn, to think, to write, to informally teach, and then, simply wait.

Jess had pulled the trigger tonight. No cop did that without going through hell. It didn't matter who was on the other end of the bullet.

A strategy is only as good as the steps you take to execute it.

Successful people sort through priorities and act upon them, while the unsuccessful see only a fog of chaos. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, instruction to business trainees

If you sit safely by and wait for your people to do your work for you, then you do not deserve to rule such a populace.

Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day. Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see?

Paulus abhorred inaction, always telling his son that even the wrong decision was better than no decision at all.

threat works only if the recipient believes you are willing to carry through with it. —REVEREND MOTHER RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL

The future is not for us to see as passive observers, but for us to create.

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Never order your tribe tae do somethin' that you're afeared tae do yerself, laddie.

The only action that has vaster repercussions for the universe than making a life is TAKING one... which is why I'll never understand why most people put so little foresight into doing either.

I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do

All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you.

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

I believe in what you do -You do? -Sure, what do you do? -Out!

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL