Quotes About Action

Henry thought that was a good time to hang up.

Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.

The task for each of us, White or of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

But unless they are walking actively in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt - unless they are actively antiracist - they will find themselves carried along with the others.

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.

Non dobbiamo mai rimandare a più tardi quando vogliamo aiutare qualcuno.

Don't ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven't got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don't do it.

Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life.

Excited, I took the book home that night and opened it before dinner – an action that I expect prompted my

What is perhaps most remarkable is that it is all just random frantic action, a sequence of endless encounters directed by nothing more than elemental rules of attraction and repulsion.

A quick Google search reveals there to be seven, ten, five, four or eight 'years to save the planet', depending on your headline writer and expert of choice ('Eleven years to save the planet' seems at the moment a rallying cry still up for grabs).

Some of these words deserve to be better known. Take velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action. Doesn't that seem a useful term? Or how about sluibbergegullion, a seventeenth-century word signifying a worthless or slovenly fellow? Or ugsome, a late medieval word meaning loathsome or disgusting.

Nobody does anything for nothing.

fascinating discussion of the…cyclical nature of history. Mankind is predictable. Governments mistreat people—their own people and others. They always have, and they always will. So the people react. There is action and reaction. This is how history has progressed and how it always will.

You, my fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now, we must do the work the season demands.

Unless we move fast toward zero, bad things (and probably many of them) will happen well within most people's lifetime, and very bad things will happen within a generation.

But we can't solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.

If you want to do business with us, you'll have to take climate change seriously.

It requires courage and resolve to resist the constant pressures and expectations confronting you and to take corrective action when necessary.

that at a certain point people need more than vision.

Can I come right out and say it? It's time for church leaders to really lead.

accomplishing a vision requires a lot more than pep talks, slogans, emotional stories, and heart-tugging video clips.

What's wrong in our world will not be set right until people who love God and who refuse to cave to these overwhelming challenges put the things they believe into action, things like courage and discipline and love.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.