Quotes About Action

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.

For any work not directed toward the purpose of either disciplining the body or serving the neighbor (as long as the neighbor demands nothing against God) is neither good nor Christian.

The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.

Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better;

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

there is much that you can do to protect yourself – and in doing so strengthen your nation.

eventually you regretted the things you hadn't done as much as the things you had.

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

Life at its longest is short, make the most of it while you still can.' How true that was.

Life's a big present from God but what you do with it is up to you. You get one crack at it, it's not a dress rehearsal as me mother used to say.

karma just means action, in Buddhist terms to act out of an intention conditioned by external and internal conditions, which in turn will have a certain result and will leave a certain imprint.

Right action is not a fixed right action, it is an action that is conditioned by love and respect. It is an action that considers the consequences of our actions in terms of whether or not they cause suffering.