Quotes about Action
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
— Mother Teresa
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
— Pope Gregory The Great
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
— Martha Graham
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
— Martin Luther
We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people
— Martin Luther
When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.
— Martin Luther
How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!
— Martin Luther
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
— Martin Luther
When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it
— Martin Luther
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.
— Martin Luther