Quotes about Action
Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.
— Ariel Sharon
I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
— Tony Campolo
You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.
— David Green
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson