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Quotes About Action

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
~ Malcolm Forbes
He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'
~ Sheldon Adelson
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
~ Denis Waitley
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
~ John Cleese
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
~ W. C. Fields
Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.
~ Amy Carter
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
~ David Allen
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
~ Arnold Bennett
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
~ C. S. Lewis
The time for change is now.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.
~ Johnny Carson
What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.
~ Simon Birch
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
~ Tony Abbott
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
~ Wesley Clark
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
~ Will Durant
From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
~ William Shakespeare
Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.
~ Napoleon Hill
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.
~ Philippos Syrigos
To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.
~ Pope Francis
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
~ Quinn Norton
If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.
~ Frederick Lenz