Quotes about Action

My nerves tingled with the sense of adventure. Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver, and, walking swiftly up the door, I looked in.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Go, send, or disobey.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things.