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Quotes About Action

The world will be saved by one or two people.
~ Andre Gide
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
~ Wendell Berry
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
~ Abigail Adams
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
~ Vauvenargues
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
~ George H. W. Bush
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
~ Barack Obama
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
~ Thom Yorke
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
~ Al Gore
I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.
~ Louie Psihoyos
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
~ William DeWitt Hyde
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
~ Dalai Lama
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.
~ Radhanath Swami
The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.
~ Paulo Freire
If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.
~ Debbie Ford
Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!
~ Denis Waitley
Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.
~ Shinjo Ito
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.
~ Vernon Davis
The future is bought with the present.
~ Samuel Johnson
Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually
~ Greyson Chance
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.
~ William C. Brown
In the future history will be made only by us.
~ George W. Bush
I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
~ Homer
You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.
~ Jodie Foster