Quotes About Action

Ain't no point in having a god, man, if he's just a slum lord never does nothin'.

Jack is reacting rather than acting. And as long as she keeps doing that, she's not going to change fate.

My next course of action was to take my phone off the hook, because I kept getting obnoxious messages along the lines of, "Where's that kidney?" and "You have to get to the hospital immediately!" and "He's dead.

His face radiated more petulance than fear. "But you're handicapped! Handicapped people don't steal!" "I'm in an affirmative action program. It gives criminal opportunities to the disabled. Throw me your cell phone." He

Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it "worketh by love," and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

Justifying faith is a grace that does not work, but simply trusts, rests, and leans on Christ (Romans 4:5). Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action. It works by charity (Galatians 5:6), and like a driving force, it moves the whole inward man.

In justification, the word to be addressed to us is "believe" – only believe; in sanctification, we must "watch, pray, and fight." What God has divided, let us not mingle and confuse.

Knowledge, not improved and well employed, will only increase our condemnation at the last day.

religious feelings are worse than worthless if they are not accompanied by practice. Mere emotional excitement, without completely breaking off from sin, is not the repentance that God approves.

La santidad verdadera no consiste meramente en creer y sentir, sino en hacer y sobrellevar.

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

Already we have in the practice of science the prototype for all human action. The task which the scientists have undertaken — the understanding and control of nature and of man himself — is merely the conscious expression of the task of human society.

Before he followed her, Hank rushed to the back and

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

It's a risk, I suppose. But wouldn't you learn and grow regardless of what the result was? That would be a gain, even if playing in Ringestad were not." Lorelin stepped lightly after her sister. "Don't just sit there, do something?" Irisa sat on the low wall and patted the spot beside her invitingly. "Except there's also: don't just do something, sit there!" Lorelin laughed. How did you tell which wisdom-saying to follow?

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.