Quotes about Action
Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."
— Brian Tracy
Happiness is activity.
— Aristotle
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
— Samuel Johnson
Thought is the seed of action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).
— Pope Francis
What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
— Leonard Sweet
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defense of the Earth.
— Desmond Tutu
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
— Nelson Mandela
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
— Audre Lorde
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
— Amelia Earhart
Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
— AB Simpson