Quotes About Action

Este es el amor con las piernas." She then translated without being asked. "'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.

When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.

this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible

Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting.

Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver and drove his spurs into the flanks of his strong horse Bo and charged directly at the bandits. It was a sight to see. He held the revolvers wide on either side of the head of his plunging steed. The four bandits accepted the challenge and they likewise pulled their arms and charged their ponies ahead.

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck.

You go for a man hard and fast enough and he don't have time to think about how many is with him, he thinks about himself and how he may get clear out of the wrath that is about to set down on him.

Lord, may Your grace and Your action toward me solidify in me a new set of values which expresses itself in new choices and actions. Amen.

Lord, help me to wait expectantly, to act purposefully, and to trust You to see me through to the end. Amen.

God will often require quick action, but he also requires stillness and reflection." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort, one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us." —THE WAY TO FREEDOM

Remembering becomes a power in the present because the God who once acted for me is the living God who today makes me sure of what he has done." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at the gate of perception and make their exit at the gate of purposive action; and whatever cannot show its passports at both those two gates is to be arrested as unauthorized by reason.

Johnson well says, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

First priority becomes first action.