Quotes About Action

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.