Quotes about Action
Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.
— John Polkinghorne
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
— Al Gore
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there
— Will Rogers
There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.
— William Barclay
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
— William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
— William Faulkner
The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.
— William Hazlitt
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
— William Howard Taft
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
— William James
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— William James
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
— William James
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
— William James