Quotes about Action

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

Who loses a day loses life.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.