Quotes About Action

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

Religion + Good Works = Good Works Solve for Religion.

The first time I saw Marcey Parker she was happily firing a submachine gun through a window.

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Action is what separates a belief from an opinion. Beliefs are imprinted through actions.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. In going

To see what must be done and not to do it, is a crime.

I think that someone should do a version of Die Hard in heroic couplets.

You're openin' a mighty big can of worms, Judson Moon!

Arlo!" Andrea shouted. "Why did you do that?

Doing nothing with even one lead is like flushing money down the toilet. It is a serious lapse in judgment and waste of precious resources every time you fail to follow-up with every lead or every customer.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

When we think of church primarily as a place or an event we go to, we minimize the theologically rich identity of the church as the people of God. And this identity — of being the church — is more than a passive statement about who we are; it's also a call to action. As representatives of Jesus, those called to communicate and live out his message and the message about him, we are on a mission.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."  -- Peter Drucker

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action—which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way." —Dan Miller

Henry Ford said, "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."3

Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter.

Patriotism would require standing up to what I had seen, not standing alongside it in silence.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

We do not need a heavy hand, just wise policies and an understanding that some things are so big or risky that only the government can be the catalyst for action.

Progress cannot be only intuited. It must be written, and read.

We can't afford to be Pollyannas or blind ourselves to real dangers, but we also should try not to succumb to despair. If we believe our vision for what our country is is worth fighting for, then we should fight for it. This is our right and duty as citizens.