Quotes about Action Required

Sophocles

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Shane Claiborne

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Billy Graham

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

Adam Schiff

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

John Wooden

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

C. S. Lewis

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Anohni

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Ben Stein

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Ron Atkinson

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Janette Turner Hospital

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Marcus Garvey

Africa with 400 million Black People can
do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you
will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good
for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other
nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

Bill Nye

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

Joe Lieberman

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

Andrew Rosenthal

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The words you've bandied are sufficient;
'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
[Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]