Quotes about Action
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
- Henry Ward Beecher
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
- Leonard Ravenhill
What could you do to make a difference in the world?
- Les Brown
Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and a lot of nothingness. And then there are moments of urgent firefighting.
- Pete Holmes
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
- St. Jerome
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
- John F. Kennedy
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
- CT Studd
Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.
- Barack Obama
Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.
- Jason Fried
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
- Martin Luther
O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
- Martin Luther
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
- Norman Vincent Peale