Action Quotes

Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.

Go and do thou likewise.

Bible

So much to do so little done.

Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.

Sallust

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Friedrich von Schiller

What's done can't be undone.

William Shakespeare

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Out of the strain of the doing Into the peace of the done.

God alone can finish.

Much that I sought I could not find much that I found I could not bind much that I bound I could not free much that I freed returned to me.

Lee Wilson Dodd

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Emmanuel

Be God or let God.

Anonymous

With us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.

Bible

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Bible

Cast thy burden on the Lord and he shall sustain thee.

Bible

But I trusted in thee O Lord I said Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

Bible

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.

Bible

Casting all your care upon Him for He careth for you.

Bible

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

Harry S. Truman

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

Pindar

Let us do or die.

James Drummond Burns

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

George Edward Herbert

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

We are the wire God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

Here am I send me.

Bible

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year But I've left the Past in God's keeping the Future His mercy shall clear And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Mary Gardiner Brainard

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Wordsworth

Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

Anna Delaney Peale

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.

If you can't help it don't think about it.

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.

One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall Some are coming some are going Do not strive to grasp them all.

Adelaide Proctor

Somehow when we no longer feel in control we become available to deeper aliveness.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Dorothy Miller Richardson

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Phyllis Bottome

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race.

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