Quotes About Action

When you make a choice, you change the future.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.