Quotes about Action
There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.
— John Maxwell
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'IÂ'm glad I did'?
— Zig Ziglar
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
— Barack Obama
the time is always right to do the right thing
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
— Charles Dickens
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
— Napoleon Hill
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.
— Anonymous
Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer