Quotes about Action

Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Leaders grasp nettles.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

But something she yearned for by which her life might be filled with action at once rational and ardent; and since the time was gone by for guiding visions and spiritual directors, since prayer heightened yearning but not instruction, what lamp was there but knowledge? Surely learned men kept-the only oil; and who more learned than Mr. Casaubon? Thus

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action