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Quotes About Action

The scourge of unlawful robocalls is technically complex to address, and no single action will get the job done.
~ Ajit Pai
I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it.
~ Clive Lewis
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.
~ Tom Frieden
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
~ Charles L. Allen
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
~ Thomas Carlyle
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
~ Zhu Rongji
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
~ Hannah Arendt
It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.
~ Jody Williams
Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
~ P. D. James
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti
~ Virgil
You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!
~ Widad Akreyi
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
~ Charlotte Bunch
Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
~ Germany Kent
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
~ Tina Fey
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
~ Joanna Baillie
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.
~ Lucy Larcom