Quotes about Action

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

become good. It would become beautiful. It would make us happy, and not with the future happiness of political promising. It would make us happy as soon as we began to do it.

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

trouble with this is that a proper concern for nature and our use of nature must be practiced, not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.