Quotes About Action

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.