Quotes About Action

Kids learn not so much from what they're taught as from what they do.

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.