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Quotes About Action

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.
~ Ryan Lilly
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
~ John C. Calhoun
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.
~ William Ellery Channing
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
~ Tyron Edwards
Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
~ Margery Allingham
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb
He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.
~ Anonymous
Think like a man of action act like a man of thought.
~ Henri Bergson
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
~ Mark A. Cooper
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
~ Haile Selassie
Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ W. H. Murray
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
~ Howard Thurman
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
~ Harry Belafonte
You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
~ Charles F. Haanel
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
~ Roald Dahl
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
~ Anwar Sadat
I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela