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Quotes About Action

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.
~ James Hansen
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
~ Jesse Jackson
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
~ Jet Li
A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.
~ Jhoon Goo Rhee
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
~ John Desmond Bernal
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
~ John Malkovich
We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?
~ Jonathon Porritt
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
~ Ally Condie
They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.
~ Augustin Misago
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
~ Barack Obama
Time is running out for the climate
~ Chris Rose
We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.
~ David Cameron
There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.
~ Douglas Merrill
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
~ Oswald Chambers
Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
~ Edward Abbey
Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
~ Fred Rogers
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
~ Harriet Doerr