Quotes about Action

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Remember what you do in life is merely a reflection of who you are as a Christian, one who loves and serves the Lord.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Evangelism is not first and foremost a matter of strategies, plans and projects, but rather of being filled with the Holy Spirit and allowing that divine life within us to burst forth in both word and action.