Quotes about Action

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

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.