Quotes About Action

Don't get mad, get even.

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The future will be shaped by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals ... They're sons of bitches. The people who are selfish are interested in their own singular course of action and do not take into consideration the needs or requirements of others and what can ultimately be accomplished.

But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom's operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.

If the church preaches faith in anything other than the resurrection - if it gives so much as the impression that anything else, be it political action, moral achievement, or spiritual proficiency, can save the world - it becomes just one more false, parochial prophet leading the world away from the catholic parousia of Christ in the universal death of history.

At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

When you merely choose a process, you do not establish structural tension, and you do not make energy available to complete the creative process.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.