Quotes about Action
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
— Barack Obama
Direct threats require decisive action.
— Dick Cheney
A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.
— Shabana Azmi
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
— St. Jerome
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— St. Augustine
Give what you command, and command what you will.
— St. Augustine
Take up, read! Take up, read!
— St. Augustine
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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