Quotes About Action

Life is a one time offer, use it well

Time flies and so do bullets.

Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

John Bunyan said, "You can do more than pray once you've prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

Patience is also a form of action.

Quien traiciona sus palabras con sus acciones necesita aumentar el tono de voz o ejercer presión para ser oído.

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Seize the day and embrace the new opportunities it brings.

Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Enlightened ideas cannot be executed with rubber bullets.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.