Quotes About Action

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.

We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.

I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have a climate target that's ground in science and consistent with what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must do.

I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there's a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.

We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it's not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.