Quotes About Action

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Good things come to those who initiate.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.