Quotes about Action
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.
- William Hazlitt
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
- William Howard Taft
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
- William James
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- William James
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- William James
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
- William James
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
- William James
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
- William James
Values and Duties Moral value refers to the worth of a person or action, whether it is good or bad. Moral duty refers to our obligation to act in a certain way, whether that action is right or wrong.
- William Lane Craig
Only one life "Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last".
- David Green
To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what's right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.
- David Jeremiah