Quotes About Action

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes ' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Try adding contemplation to your actions. When you are sweeping, you can be removing anger or fear. When you are mowing, you can be cutting down desire and greed.

And it seems to me when people quit dreaming, sleeping and awake, when they can't even imagine wonderful and terrible things happening, then they're not going to make things happen. They're not really people anymore. They're just sort of like pets.

E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

I know that when religious people are feeling overwhelmed by a world with little use for their ancient truths, they can find new meaning by identifying a great evil to oppose.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

You must do something to make the world more beautiful.

Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.

Living is about doing, not watching, not waiting.