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Quotes About Action

Time to the face the music.
~ J.R. Ward
...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
~ Jack Kerouac
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
~ Jack Welch
Listen up," I said urgently. "It's time to round up your gear. I'm gonna check in with Patrick, and then we're getting the flock out of here." Ha-ha.
~ James Patterson
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.
~ James Reavis
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
~ James Russell Lowell
I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.
~ Jean-Sebastien Giguere
There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.
~ Jeff Olson
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
~ Jennifer Stone
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.
~ Joe Biden
Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.
~ Joe Teti
Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.
~ Johan Cruijff
We have time enough if we but use it aright
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.
~ John C. Reilly
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
~ John Dryden
That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'
~ John Flansburgh
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
~ John Mellencamp
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
~ Jose Bergamin
The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.
~ Joseph Crowley
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.
~ Joseph J. Romm
Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.
~ Joseph J. Romm
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
~ Joseph J. Romm