Quotes About Action

The purpose behind each individual sermon is to secure some moral action. We need to know what that action is.

The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.

In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.

I likes me some 'Shit Blows Up' fiction, don't get me wrong.

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!

Knowing is not enough.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

People listened to whale songs, and politicians listened to the whale-song listening people and, then, finally, acted on the warnings of the population biologist Cassandras. The

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone, taking chances.

Krieg ist eine bescheuerte Sache, doch trotzdem mussten wir ihn führen. Mussten. Fragt mich nicht, warum. Wir mussten.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, a thirteenth century scholar, said that it is possible for anyone to have sincerity in what one does and in what one believes, irrespective of creed.

Act for your world as if you will live forever, and act for your Hereafter as if you are going to die tomorrow.

The onus is on us as a community to really put forward a different face for our religion, for our community, and for our Lord, and for our Prophet, peace be upon him, because it's really unacceptable that a religion with all of this beauty should be painted with such ugly strokes. So we're really here trying to paint a beautiful picture of our faith in action.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up.

It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.