Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Action

In summation, there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen.
— Marianne Williamson
I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.
— Marianne Williamson
If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.
— Mark Batterson
Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.
— Mark Batterson
Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!
— Mark Batterson
Activism. Belief in the gospel needs to be expressed outwardly.
— Mark Driscoll
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
— Desmond Tutu
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
— Aristotle
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
— Aristotle
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
— Aristotle
Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
By the way, a question is sometimes raised, whether the moral choice or the actions have most to do with Virtue, since it consists in both: it is plain that the perfection of virtuous action requires both: but for the actions many things are required, and the greater and more numerous they are the more.
— Aristotle