Immediate Action Quotes

Start where you are, use what you have.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense. Benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Thursday night the streets were filled with excited crowds. Till nearly midnight, the streets presented the most animated appearance. The crowd illuminated their passage by rockets and other fireworks, and made the air resound with their deafening cries. No one talks of anything but the necessity for prompt action. It is believed that separate and immediate action on the part of this state will be followed by action on the part of several other southern states forthwith. It is hardly prudent for any man to express his opinion adverse to immediate succession. So heated are the public passions, so intolerant of restraint is the popular will.

A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Anything that will be revealed eventually, should be revealed immediately.

Your time is up. Go now. Don't wait until there has been more death and destruction

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Act first, explain later.

Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.