Quotes about Action

But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.