Quotes About Action

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Let's be honest, part of the whole great March of Humanity is just swinging your arms and walking, just smiling and moving forward.

Sin and God are correlative terms. If you redefine the biblical God, you can deny the seriousness of sins. But with a biblical God, it follows that he must disapprove and take action against much that is acceptable in today's world. By

Authorities! Permits! Insurance! How I yearn for the days when a man could just bust loose, tear around and get what needs to be done, done.

The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there

If you wait until you're ready, you'll wait forever.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

sThat's enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.

There's never a good excuse for not doing anything—

Why did I always need to do something, like referring one person to another, just for the sake of doing something, when sometimes, perhaps, it was better to do nothing?

Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.