Quotes about Action

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

Taking initiative means] recognizing our responsibility to make things happen

Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequence. When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other

Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.

Whenever someone in our family, even one of the younger children, takes an irresponsible position and waits for someone else to make things happen or provide a solution, we tell them, "Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

Proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb.

in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.

Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her." "But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?