Quotes about Action
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
- Proverbs 3:27
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Proverbs 6:9
Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.
- Proverbs 13:16
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- Proverbs 14:1
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23
Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
- Proverbs 26:6
As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
- Proverbs 26:14
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
- Proverbs 26:15
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
- Proverbs 26:27
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
- Ecclesiastes 3:3
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4
I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
- Isaiah 48:3