Quotes About Action

You cannot do anything for your salvation, but you must do something to manifest it, you must work out what God has worked in.

There must be a mechanical [physical] outlet for spiritual inspiration. You must DO [in the physical] what you see [in the spiritual], or become BLIND in that particular.

The remarkable thing about spiritual initiative is that the life and power comes after we "get up and get going." God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome. When the inspiration of God comes, and He says, "Arise from the dead," we have to get ourselves up; God will not lift us up.

We are so involved in the universal purposes of God that immediately we obey God, others are affected

If, during a prayer meeting, God shows you something to do, don't say, "I'll do it"—just do it! Pick yourself up by the back of the neck and shake off your fleshly laziness. Laziness can always be seen in our cravings for a mountaintop experience; all we talk about is our planning for our time on the mountain. We must learn to live in the ordinary "gray" day according to what we saw on the mountain.

And everything else in your life will be held in temporary suspension until you make a decision.

The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Leben ist Tun und Leiden. Je wissender der Mensch, desto tiefer sein seelisches Leid.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Más vale una vida breve, llena de hazañas y de nobleza, que una vida larga sin contenido

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasnt the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda