Quotes about Action

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a destiny.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

What we do flows from who we are.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.