Quotes about Action
Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.
- Stephen Covey
Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with
- Stephen Covey
It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.
- Stephen Covey
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.
- Deepak Chopra
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
- St. Augustine
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
- Alphonsus Liguori
When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.
- Craig Groeschel
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.
- Heidi Baker
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
- Donald Miller
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
- Bob Goff