Quotes about Action
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
- Elie Wiesel
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
- Elie Wiesel
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
- Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always takes sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel
There is "response" in responsibility.
- Elie Wiesel
Suffering confers no privileges; it is what one does with suffering that matters.
- Elie Wiesel
Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I'm convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can't do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If he had loved her he would have pursued her.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.
- Elizabeth George