Quotes About Action

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Creativity is the power to act.

Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!

The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

No one can give us power. If we aren't part of the process of taking it, we won't be strong enough to use it.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.