Quotes About Action

A clear intention—stated without desperation or need, with a childlike spirit of trust, faith, and fun—led to an opportunity nobody could have predicted or orchestrated. Our job was to take inspired action when it appeared, and we did.

This was my problem, and I had to solve it or live with the negative consequences. I chose to solve it.

Love is not a thought; it is an action verb. It is not a thing, but an expression. You can't love in a vacuum; love demands an object. It demands a relationship. "N

when men know not what to do , they ought not to do they know not what

I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

The voice of friendship is not words; but action.

But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it, Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought

When he was young, the lesson learned from his mother, as much by cuffs as caresses, was that love is action--what you do, not what you feel--but perhaps, he thinks now, it was a false lesson, and that love is something else altogether, something he knows nothing of. He sees it, this love, hovering like the Paraclete above the heads of a fig-leafed Cranach couple, streaming divine grace down upon them in burning rays. Where was his soul when this pentecostal fire was falling from the sky?

What is my purpose here? I may say, I just sat down to write, but I am not deceived. I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.

Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall [...]

2. Lake Erie The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue.

The accurate measurement of our true spiritual condition lies in our actual obedience to His will.

Complex faith does not kill giants. It imprisons us in "wonder" land where we try to figure out what we cannot change and hesitate to make any move.

What good is it to acknowledge Jesus Christ when there is no change of heart and therefore no change in action?

The proof that we believe something isn't when we agree with what someone teaches us, it's when we act on it.

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

By doing nothing, you did everything. By taking no responsibility, you bear all responsibility.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

These authors posit that a value is not a value unless it has seven elements. They are: 1. It must be chosen. 2. There must be alternatives. 3. You must know the consequences of your choice. 4. Once chosen you prize and cherish it. 5. You are willing to publicly proclaim it. 6. You act on this value. 7. You act on it consistently and repeatedly.

One of the significant lessons in my life was given me by Abraham Low, the founder of Recovery, Inc. He said that "intellectualizing about our problems is complex but easy, while doing something about them is simple but difficult." Shame-based intellectuals love to analyze.

The tremendous effectiveness of change history was discovered by paying attention to how people can distort their internally generated experience and then act on the distortion, forgetting that they created it in the first place.

He said that "intellectualizing about our problems is complex but easy, while doing something about them is simple but difficult." Shame-based intellectuals love to analyze.

In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one... Buchan, John. Salute to Adventurers (p. 172). Kindle Edition.