Quotes About Action

What do we see God doing? What is He doing in our church? What is God doing in our community? What is He doing around the world? How can we participate in what He is doing?

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.

If your house is on fire, you don't comfort yourself with the thought that houses have been catching fire for thousands of years. You don't sit idly back and think, "Oh well, that is the way of nature." You get going, immediately. And you don't spring into action because of an idealistic notion that houses deserve to be saved. You do it because if you don't, you won't have a place to live.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed.

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Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams," he preaches in his inaugural address. "We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. "I believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." *

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

A quick quick fails fast. But practical knowledge always lasts.

change fear into faith, hate into love, egoism into humility, anxiety and worry into serenity, complacency into action, denial into acceptance, jealousy into trust, fantasy into reality, selfishness into service, resentment into forgiveness, judgmentalism into tolerance, despair into hope, self-hate into self-respect, and loneliness into fellowship.

And despite promising "everything I've got," President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, à la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.11

Eight years ago, we chanted: "Yes, we can." Today, on too many issues, we lament: "Yes, we could have—but we didn't.

yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey.

Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.

You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.

the law of sowing and reaping is the platform by which all of the other kingdom principles work.