Quotes About Action

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?