Quotes about Action
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- Francis de Sales
Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
- Saint Jerome
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.
- Sam Walton
Exercise is labor without weariness.
- Samuel Johnson
If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.
- Samuel Rutherford
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
- CS Lewis
Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."
- Henri Nouwen
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
- Dustin Hoffman
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
- DL Moody