Quotes About Action

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ramís horn sounds.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.

Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.

Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

Like binding a stone into a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,