Quotes About Action

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

'Wait, Wait' has been great. The humor is there, and we get to do a lot of action.

People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolent leader who may choose to listen to us. We need a network that lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top through an open, inclusive democratic process.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

One thing I have learned over the years, when you're trying to pursue a coach and there is a coach out there that you think is the right fit, you can't wait around. You have to act, you have to act quick because there are a lot of people looking for good coaches.

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.