Quotes About Action

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.

I don't think I consciously say, 'What would Olivia Pope do?' but there's a new thread of belief in my own capacity that I think comes from her. She makes it happen. She figures it out. She fixes it.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Without action to de-carbonize our economies, unchecked climate change threatens to batter lives and economies around the world, hitting the poorest people hardest.

Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country.

No single platform can sensibly prevent all hateful, illegal or threatening speech - it can only act in due time to remove it.