Quotes About Action

Lo que hace falta es pasar de la energía inerte del deseo a la energía activa de la acción y la intención.

do something expressing your kindness to someone who will be totally surprised by your actions.

When you see the world as full of opportunities to help, one thought and one action at a time, you'll be living by your inner light. The great

act without being concerned for your own ego.

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

Action, not principle is the object of law and legislation; with a person's principles no government has any right to interfere.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

Know thyself' is a highly overrated piece of wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't hide. History will find you. It has now found Obama.

There are things to be done. Resist retreat as a matter of strategy and principle. And provide the means to continue our dominant role in the world by keeping our economic house in order. And finally, we can follow the advice of Demosthenes when asked what was to be done about the decline of Athens. His reply? 'I will give what I believe is the fairest and truest answer: Don't do what you are doing now.

As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

Third and most important: I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. Tell me about his outer acts.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.

Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.

This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out

All hearts stop, Annie. What matters is what you do with it while it's still pumping.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.