Quotes About Action

Action follows our knowledge of God and trust in him. It is as if God has said to us, "Now that you have seen who I am, you will want to love me in return. This is how you can love me." And then God teaches us how to love him.

The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.

Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.

A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

Don't any of you go taking any notice of the Government's promises. They will tell you anything to get you in but when you "do your bit" as they call it, you will soon be forgotten and so will the promises – don't you forget that. Now you must do as you think right.

While we seek to fill up life in a way that will best secure the ends of our existence here, our whole plan and course of action should be such as will not hinder but serve our preparation for a future world.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Words have consequences.

Watch me do it, Jeff! Watch me do it, square!

At sound and scent of the approaching huddle of sheep, Treve leaped to his feet; queer ancestral instincts tugging at the back of his alert young brain. In all his eight months of life he had never seen nor smelt a sheep. But his Scottish ancestors, for a hundred generations, had earned their right to live by tending such creatures as these which came trooping past the shack. Something far stronger than himself urged the put to action.