Quotes About Action

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Do the thing and the power will come.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.