Quotes About Action

everything I'd ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Without application, preaching is at best a lecture and at worst entertainment.

Most people would rather listen to sermons than act on them.

Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.

Do you think the people you preach to have a feeling of love?" the young man asked. "Well, I'm not talking about weak love," King explained. "I'm talking about love with justice. Weak love can be sentimental and empty. I'm talking about the love that is strong, so that you love your fellow men enough to lead them to justice.

life is just too short to just sit around.

It's all happening!

She did what she did, then left the rest of us to deal with it.

Sometimes people only do things that they really want to when circumstances force them to.

Sometimes you have to be proactive. You can't just sit there, waiting for things to happen. For things to change. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Whether a plot in a yard or pots in a window, every politically engaged person should have a garden. By politically engaged, I mean everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others. We should all take some time to plant life in the soil. Even when such planting isn't easy.

Si vamos a hacer algo vale la pena comenzar a hacerlo aunque sea rudimentariamente hasta que aprendamos a hacerlo bien, pero empezar a hacerlo ya mismo con lo que tenemos hoy

No quiero empezar hasta no estar totalmente seguro'. Esta vaca me daba la tranquilidad de creer que estaba siendo responsable, pero lo que en realidad hizo fue impedirme realizar numerosos proyectos, esperando el momento propicio, o que se dieran todas las condiciones. Ahora me doy cuenta que si espero las circunstancias ideales para hacer las cosas, nunca emprenderé nada nuevo, así que he aprendido a actuar".

Si el tiempo sobra es porque, como es tan poco, no sabemos lo que hacer con él.

No es lo mismo estar dormido que estar durmiendo, de la misma manera que no es lo mismo estar jodido que estar jodiendo. -- En respuesta al senador y mosén Lluis María Xirinacs que le recriminaba estar dormido en su escaño del senado. --

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

paperback novel of the escapist kind, SAS action stuff where men were men and women mattresses.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?

Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important" p. 33