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Quotes About Action

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.
~ Angela Merkel
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity "It's your move.
~ Bob Goff
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
~ Stockard Channing
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.
~ Bill Mollison
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
~ Enele Sopoaga
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
~ Emma Goldman
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.
~ Leoluca Orlando
Someday is not a day of the week.
~ Janet Dailey
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
~ Linus Torvalds
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
~ Rita Coolidge
In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
~ Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
~ Adam Ferrara
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
~ Twyla Tharp
We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.
~ George W. Bush
All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer