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"Every person of action has a strong dose of
egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high
qualities if they are made the means to achieve great ends." (Charles De Gaulle) You can never get much of anything done unless you go ahead and do it before you're ready. Christian love does not consist of words, it consists of self-sacrificing actions. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." (Abraham Lincoln) "I do not believe in a fate that falls on people however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." (G. K. Chesterton) "One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts—lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are." (F. W. Robertson) "I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans." (George MacDonald) "The actions of people are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable about them." (Heinrich Heine) "Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all." (John Ruskin) The preacher who deals with the great truths of holy character must impersonate those truths. There is power inherent in truth; but it is often like electricity, needing a conductor to develop it. The preacher who best commends the truth of the gospel to his hearers is he who has translated that truth into his own life, until his life is full of it and redolent of it. (Anonymous) "When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece." (John Ruskin) "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to adulthood, and the measure of civilization." (Calvin Coolidge) "The world is blessed by people who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them." (James Oliver) "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know." (Charles Kingsley) "Deliberation is the work of many people. Action, of one alone." (Charles de Gaulle) "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." (Victor Hugo) "A noble deed is a step toward God." (Holland Holland) People who wait until they feel like doing a job, seldom do. "It is well to think well; it is Divine to act well." (Horace Mann) If you sometimes feel confused about what to do, consider Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going; when he got there, he didn't know where he was; and when he got back, he didn't know where he had been. "So act that your principles of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." (Emmanuel Cant) "However brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless the result of a great motive." (La Rochefoucauld) |
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