Quotes about Action

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Never allow a truth of God that is brought home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but in will. Record it, with ink or with blood. The feeblest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is emancipated the second he acts; all the almighty power of God is on his behalf.