Quotes About Action

So, in committing to a vision, a purpose larger than our own lives, we are freed from the smallness and pettiness of our own minds and catapulted out of anxiety and fear into inspired action.

We can transform our fear and anxiety into commitment and action. That transformation is what interrupts and heals the fear, and it moves the dial on what is causing it.

A state of inactivity was never mean for man....There are hours when I feel unequal to the trial...Let no person say what they would or not do since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act...necessity has no law...

Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.

do. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

How many times have I claimed to be a woman of faith but rarely lived a life requiring faith?

It is easier to make excuses than changes.

We can go to Bible study and amen every point made, but if we don't apply it to our lives, we won't be changed.

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

No matter what wrong thing has happened, there is a right next thing to do.

At first we say it's too soon, then years go by and we say it's too late.

Access without application will not equal transformation.

Move forward. And determine not to make it all so complicated.

Choices and consequences come in package deals. When we make a choice, we ignite the consequences that can come along with it.

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

We will live reactive lives instead of proactive.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

I recognize that what you believe doesn't matter in the slightest. All that matters is how you personally behave.

Rather than insist that a situation must prove itself flawless before we commit ourselves, we should assume that a good opportunity is very possibly one we should choose.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

It's also the principle that lies behind all of Oriental martial arts. You don't try to stop your opponent, you let him come at you-and then give him a tap in just the right direction as he rushes by. The idea is to observe, to act courageously, and to pick your timing extremely well.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.