Quotes About Action

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

I'm a patient man, Ebie. I had to learn that in prison. But I learned other things, too. That there is so much trouble in this world, we need to do everything we can, every day of our lives, to stop trouble from happening. Not cause it.

Karma is a boomerang and a bitch.

Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it at all. You just wait for it to go away. You don't help. You don't listen. You don't call. You don't write. WE deal with it in our own way. WE deal with it. We girls. We make the meals and clean up the messes and take the crap and listen to you talk about how you're dealing with it in your own way. What way? No way!

Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived—to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that—this doubtless is the right way to live. —HENRY JAMES

To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do," said Victor Hugo.

Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back, said, "Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?" "No," said the other. "Then I'll tell you. It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can