Quotes about Action

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

We are what we do with our attention."64