Quotes about Action

Rabbi Tarfon said: "You are not called upon to complete the task, yet you are not free to evade it." Whatever we do is only a partial fulfillment; the rest is completed by God.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. When we come to you, sad they to the sea, we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own. The sea replied shortly, Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

The gods help them that help themselves.

An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.