Quotes About Action

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.

Don't waste another day of your life.

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

The more you get done now, the less you'd have to do later!

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community… that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, learn along the way, and keep moving. ~ Conrad Hilton

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ~ Peter Drucker

Politics is the force that channels social, cultural, and economic powers and makes them imminent in our lives. Abstaining from politics is like turning your back on a beast when it is angry and intent on ripping your guts out.

measures against the Bolsheviki. Daily

If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road." Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path, perhaps we can be viewed as the generation that rose above comfort and decadence to turn things around.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.