Quotes About Action

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Plant the seed whose vine or tree may hang you.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

The true goal for man is to be what he does. The worth of a religion is the worth of the individuals living it. A mitsvah, therefore, is not mere doing but an act that embraces both the doer and the deed. The means may be external, but the end is personal. Your deeds be pure, so that ye shall be holy. A hero is he who is greater than his feats, and a pious man is he who is greater than his rituals. The deed is definite, yet the task is infinite.

Faith is vision, sensitivity and attachment to God; piety is an attempt to attain such sensitivity and attachment. The gates of faith are not ajar, but the mitsvah is a key. By living as Jews we may attain our faith as Jews. We do not have faith because of deeds; we may attain faith through sacred deeds. A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought.

It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is

Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.