Quotes about Action

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.

Each action of each of us, each decision to pursue one course rather than another, changes or rather "produces" the future.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

Step on my toe. Must I curse? I may. Must I forgive you? I may. Must I yell? I may. Must I smile? I may. What I do will reflect my character, but it is "I" who will act and not just react like a bell ringing when a button is pushed.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

Good decisions don't so much need consensus as they need commitment.