Quotes about Action
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
— John Owen
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
— Charles Swindoll
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
— Charles Spurgeon
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
— Edmund Burke
A man is worked on by what he works on.
— Frederick Douglass
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
— Henry Parry Liddon
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It's not where you start, but whether you start.
— Terri Savelle Foy
All the reading of weight-loss books and purchasing of fitness equipment won't change a thing until you first guard your words.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Escape for your life! Do not look behind you!
— Terri Savelle Foy