Quotes about Action

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Man believes and lives.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.