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Quotes about Action

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.
— Nelson Mandela
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
— Nikki Giovanni
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".
— Norman Vincent Peale
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth
— NT Wright
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
— Og Mandino
But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
— Oprah Winfrey
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
— Oprah Winfrey
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
— Oprah Winfrey