Quotes About Action

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.

it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)

At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

The only way to change the order, she thought, was not to do something differently, but to do a different thing.

Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world

Move. Walk. Run. Hide. Steal and move on.

belleza no era simplemente algo que contemplar, era algo que una podía hacer.

This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

Rage has limited uses and serious flaws. It cuts off reason and displaces constructive action with mindless theater. Besides, absorbing the lies, untruths, both transparent and nuanced, of governments, their hypocrisy so polished it does not even care if it is revealed, can lead to a wearied and raveled mind.

There were irreconcilable differences among the congregations in town, but members from all of them merged solidly on the necessity of this action: Do what you have to. Neither the Convent nor the women in it can continue.

Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me...

faith is acting as if God is telling the truth.

Oftentimes, what is required on our part is taking a step, making the move, doing the thing that God has asked us to do without the accompanying emotions to go along with it. However, as you continue to walk by faith in the direction God has called you, your emotions are soon to follow.

Full faith is an all-out, no-holds-barred approach to a life punctuated by actions of belief.

Faith isn't simply tied to belief. It is tied to an action. Faith is tied to your feet. The power of faith comes when you are willing to give the very thing that you need to someone else so God can give "it" back to you.

Faith means acting on what God says in spite of what you know, your background, your experience, or even your education. Faith is a recognition of your own finiteness in relation to God's infiniteness.

The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.

Don't wait until you become a big shot to do big-shot

God's power can bring down any giant, but we have to be willing to get in the game.

Muchos de nosotros tenemos necesidades inmediatas por las que oramos. Quizá incluso oramos con frecuencia por ellas; pero, si no nos movemos con fe, limitamos la oportunidad de ver la mano sobrenatural de Dios.

Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving.

Los hijos de Dios actuarán porque saben que Dios es poderoso.