Quotes About Action

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

If I can't - then I must. If I must - then I will.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength.

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.