Time For Action Quotes

#1. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Joan Ruddock

#2. This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

Bryant McGill

#4. All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Carl Sandburg

#5. When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson

#6. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#8. Has anyone ever told you how cute you are when you talk like a geek?" She grinned at him and Einstein ducked his head, pleased at her mention of cute. "Enough chit-chat, charming. Time for action. You promised the boss you'd probe me.

Eve Langlais

#9. There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are here to do the bidding of our Lord Almighty, but it is through deeds, as well as piety, that we serve Him.

Robyn Young

#10. Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action.

Ramakrishna

#11. Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#12. While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.

Nick Lampson

#13. The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

Ashleigh Brilliant

#14. The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

Eliot Spitzer

#16. Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

Jon Meacham

#17. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Helena Blavatsky

#18. I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

Muhammad Yunus

#19. We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

George P. Shultz

#20. The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time -

Kim Stanley Robinson

#21. The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Norm Dicks

#22. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.

Frederick The Great

#23. If it is to BE.. it's up to ME. Time for SWIFT ACTION! id your best mindset reset.

Tony Dovale

#24. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#25. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

Carly Fiorina

#27. It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#28. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Andy Hargreaves

#30. I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.

Philippe Petit

#31. For a long time afterwards, in prison, when moral change took place in me, I thought of that moment, recalled what I could of it, and considered it. I remembered for an instant, before the action I had a terrible consciousness I was killing a defenseless woman, my wife!

Leo Tolstoy

#32. There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#33. If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.

Peter Hoeg

#34. 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

#35. I hated this love that I had for my family - love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.
I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

Indu Muralidharan

#36. And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

David Blunkett

#37. Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

David Josiah Brewer

#38. It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.

Alma Adams

#39. A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

Cesare Pavese

#40. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

Suzy Kassem

#41. Compassion is not a sometime action; it's an every time passion! You can't be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week ... That's first class hypocrisy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#44. Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

Robert Rodriguez

#45. Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear - and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

Sherry Turkle

#46. Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.

Nate Holland

#47. If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

Thomas Carlyle

#48. We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time."
The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. "Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don't they?" - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile

S.W. Lothian

#49. There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one's death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#51. Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

Winston Churchill

#52. You deserve a full time play; you can't be reserved. Engage your best stamina; you have my support ... You can't be a surplus ... !

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. It's time for greatness
not for greed. It's a time for idealism
not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Marian Wright Edelman

#54. How's this for a punch line," she whispered, wetting her lips as her gaze fell to my mouth. The action made me forget to breathe. "Marry me today, and I'll stay the night again tonight, only this time instead of asking you to stop, I'll beg you not to.

Kelly Oram

#55. Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#56. If you keep waiting for the ideal time, chances are that there will never be

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#57. What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

T. S. Eliot

#58. Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#59. If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar)

Kathi Humphries

#60. The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

#61. It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.
Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Christ.
Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.

Elle Kennedy

#62. The automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to respond maternally to that single "cheep-cheep" noise.

Robert B. Cialdini

#63. I stood staring at this man, who accepted me fully, and it dawned on me for the very first time, he might be a better person than I was. I'd picked apart every action he'd ever made and weighed it by my scale of correct and incorrect, while he simply accepted me for everything I was.

Donna Augustine

#64. You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.

Mordecai Richler

#65. Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball ... this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

Gary Danielson

#66. Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

Kevin Gates

#67. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

Ken Wyatt

#68. I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

Audre Lorde

#69. The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.

Katee Sackhoff

#70. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#71. Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

Ming-Dao Deng

#72. There is no perfect time for anything.
The time is now. Act while you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

Dan Abnett

#74. There are two rules of action for all sentient beings, for all galaxies, and for all time. Where these rules are honored, above and beyond the manufactured laws of government, there is always peace, freedom and abundance. The first rule of action is: Feed the poor.

Robin Gregory

#75. I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.

Daniel Wu

#76. Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them.

John C. Maxwell

#77. When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.

C. G. Jung

#78. Always our action counts for our success, not our time.

John Patrick Hickey

#79. The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Alain Badiou

#80. Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination

Sunday Adelaja

#81. Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Esther Hicks

#82. There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#83. For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.

Seth

#84. Now was not the time to quit and mourn. Now was the time for prayer and action.

Todd Burpo

#85. Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

Mike Michalowicz

#86. Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Margaret Heffernan

#87. I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.

Lara Adrian

#88. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.

Iain M. Banks

#89. For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

John Burns

#90. I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

David Ramsey

#91. There's a time to wait for a miracle, and there's a time to be a miracle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop - keep going.

Rodolfo Costa

#93. Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second

Robert Ringer

#94. Predetermine a course of action.
Lay out your goals.
Adjust your priorities.
Notify key personnel.
Allow time for acceptance.
Head into action.
Expect problems.
Always point to the successes.

John C. Maxwell

#95. Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

#96. We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

J. D. Bernal

#97. The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Homer

#98. He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I've had enough babysitting duty. It's time for some grownup action.

Terry Spear

#99. Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

Russel Honore

#100. Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

Jeff Olson