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Quotes About Action

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~ Jimmy Lyons
The future begins today.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.
~ Paulo Coelho
The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Paul Wellstone
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
~ Noam Chomsky
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
~ Barack Obama
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
~ Harriet Martineau
Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
~ Paul Mooney
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.
~ Yaya Toure
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
~ William Arthur Ward
The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
~ Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
~ Milton H. Erickson
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
~ Barack Obama
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
~ Jim Rohn
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
~ Douglass North
Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.
~ Al Gore
Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.
~ Sri Chinmoy
People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.
~ Albert Bandura
When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.
~ Zig Ziglar
Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.
~ Unknown