Quotes About Action

Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act.

Christians had the responsibility to "have enough compassion to pray and do the hard work which is necessary to answer the honest questions.

Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investment bankers shouted and cursed around him, he began dictating

You can either be a dead hero or a live coward

the ineradicable prejudice that every action intended to serve the profit interest must be anti-social by this fact alone."27

Spiritual change is more a consequence of what our hearts love than of what our hands do.

Our identity determines what we do; what we do does not determine our identity.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

If there is to be any human transformation that is sustainable, it will be because of the action of the Holy Spirit, not the effectiveness of our development technology or the cleverness of our participatory processes

Activists are quick to pick up on the preaching, the healing, and the casting out stuff. They too often overlook that Christ's call was first and foremost "to be with" Christ. Being must precede doing.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing." —Audre Lorde

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

Once Buck gets a saddle on a young clinic horse he goes through all the same actions he had previously done with the horse unsaddled. This is to reinforce that the horse has nothing to fear after the saddle is cinched up.

Buckminster Fuller

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?