Quotes about Action

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let's begin this new chapter — together — and let's start the work right now.

he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

There was no action she could take against the men of undeined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was nothing she could say to them - nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.