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Quotes About Action

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.
~ Susan Cooper
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
~ T. S. Eliot
There will be time to murder and create.
~ T. S. Eliot
Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
~ Theocritus
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
~ Thomas Paine
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
~ Veronica Roth
Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
~ Victoria Pratt
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
~ Walter Cronkite
Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.
~ William Shakespeare
Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
~ Zig Ziglar
Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
~ Eileen Caddy
What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.
~ Esther Hicks
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
~ Euripides
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
~ F. Thomson Leighton
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
~ Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
~ George D. Prentice
After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
~ George Lucas
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
~ Harry Callahan
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
~ Harry S. Truman
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
~ Herbert Schiller
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
~ Holly Lisle
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
~ Isaac Mizrahi