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Quotes About Action

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead
We shall not wait for tomorrow. The future is always beginning now...
~ Mark Strand, "The Babies"
To be sure, every football play is in a sense a short narrative. First come the signals of the quarterback. That is the preliminary exposition. Then the plot thickens, action becomes intense and a climax is reached whereby the mood of tragedy or comedy is established.
~ Heywood Broun, 1922
Obviously, what we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
When God created man, He gave him two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
~ Author unknown, c.1939
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~ Author unknown, 1920s
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.
~ Chinese proverb
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~ Alfred Adler
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
~ Chinese proverb
Vote! It's your superpower.
~ Author Unknown
A man in words and not in deeds, Is like a Garden full of weeds.
~ James Howell's Proverbs, 1660
It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan
Exercise! — because zombies will eat the slow ones first.
~ Internet meme
Shape tomorrow by voting today.
~ Author Unknown
"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."
~ Author Unknown
Willful waste brings woeful want.
~ Proverb
Never confuse movement with action.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, 1966
Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.
~ Author unknown, c. 1970s
He who physics himself poisons a fool.
~ Proverb
I'm so excited, it's time to take out the trash! What should I wear?
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.
~ Author Unknown
Don't put off your happy life.
~ Author Unknown
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
~ Author Unknown