Quotes About Action

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you.

Together, we'll set the world on fire.

Up in the room, I heard one of them say, "Did she say how she's getting to Gabriela's? You don't think she'll try to drive herself?" "Nah," another said. "She has more sense than that." Scooping up my bag, I ran for the garage and stole Liam's car.

No amount of careful would have been enough. We have to focus on what we can do, not what we wish we could.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

If you have time don't wait for time.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.