Quotes About Action

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

My message is that it's never too late. If it's something you want to do or if it's important to you, go for it.

Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too little.

You get to show that, sometimes, it's not too late to do what many might've done decades before.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it's too late.

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

It is better to do too much than to do too little.

He who considers too much will perform little.

If I'm going for a shot, then I've just resolved to go for it and not think too much about it.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.

I don't think about consequences too much.

I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.