Quotes about Action

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Go, send, or disobey.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.

No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

Don't waste another day of your life.

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world.