Quotes about Action

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Faith...needs to be matched with action. Belief is not just brain cells in motion. It demands a response. Do we do what we believe? If we believe in a seed, we plant it.

Absolutism, in both religious and political realism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations.

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).

God does not need to provide any resources for what you are not doing.

How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.

We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.