Quotes About Action

There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind the choice you make, makes you.

The smallest good dead is better than the best intention

I focused the power from my armor into my leg and kicked the door in. The metal and plastic fibers splintered and the hinges ripped free from the wall. "By the way, boss," HARV said. "I believe that the door was unlocked.

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.

Embody what you most want to impart, and keep your mouth shut.

The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal, to love.

Non-doing can arise within action as well as in stillness. The inward stillness of the doer merges with the outward activity to such an extent that the action does itself. Effortless activity. Nothing is forced. There is no exertion of the will, no small-minded "I," "me," or "mine" to lay claim to a result, yet nothing is left undone. Non-doing is a cornerstone of mastery in any realm of activity.

But if you don't see and accept things as they actually are, you won't know how to act. Or you might be overwhelmed by fear, and that fear might cloud the mind just when you most need clarity and equanimity, or at least, if clarity and equanimity seem elusive, just when you need to be aware of the fear so that you can find ways to work with it rather than have it work against you.

If the Christian life seems boring, I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!

At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!

Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.

Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.

Life is full of risks.It is matter to take risks than doing nothing.Dare to take risks in life.

Faith is an encounter in which God takes and keeps the initiative.

Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.