Quotes About Action

we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.

I've never done this when it was an act of love.

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

There's plenty of work to do; do your job with decency and an open heart. Love your brothers and sisters in all actions, in all relationships. Speak the truth. Extend your innate empathy to distant tribes and strange animals. Arm yourself with friendship and love the Earth.

Love is in the acts, not in the feels.

When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

The Scientist (2019) "Quantum Biology May Help Solve Some of Life's Greatest Mysteries." Nature (2021) "Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

We both absently pulled handguns from our holsters and extended them outward.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

adding something, and therefore "doing something," seems much more intuitively reasonable than subtracting the "unlikely" causes and letting the body heal itself.

James condemns any form of Christianity that drifts into a sterile, actionless "orthodoxy." Faith, not what we do, is fundamental in establishing a relationship with God. But faith, James insists, must be given content. Genuine faith, he insists, always and inevitably produces evidence of its existence in a life of righteous living.

A quel instant "pas maintenant" se transforme en "jamais

How soon "not now" becomes "never".

Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.

The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.