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Quotes About Action

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
~ William Penn
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.
~ Miriam Defensor Santiago
Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
~ Thomas Berry
Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.
~ Pat Heim
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.
~ Paulo Coelho
The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
~ Tryon Edwards
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
~ Honore de Balzac
You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.
~ Steven Morrissey
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Robert South
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
~ Bill McKibben
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
~ Aleister Crowley
What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.
~ Judy LaMarsh
There is energy and power in a crisis.
~ Andrew Cuomo
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
~ Aristotle
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
~ Anne Lamott
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
~ William Powell
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
~ Wendell Berry
Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The present is the point of power.
~ Seth