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Quotes About Action

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
~ Gore Vidal
The men who make history have not time to write it.
~ Klemens von Metternich
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It is always the right time to do the right thing.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
~ Henry Clay
You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.
~ Charles F. Haanel
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
~ Hugh Prather
I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.
~ Philippe Petit
We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
~ Kim Il-sung
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
~ Herodotus
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.
~ Chris Guillebeau
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
~ Kevin Systrom
If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
~ Rob Hopkins
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!
~ Ray Kroc
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
~ Jean Toomer
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.
~ Margaret Feinberg
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
~ Della Reese
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
~ J.P. Vaswani
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.