Quotes about Action

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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

God is the God of "right now." He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you … right now.

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Faith spawns reflexive steps of obedience. It steps out. We must not imagine that we have faith if we do not obey.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realise you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.