100+ Immediate Action Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

topic: Fall, Men, Hunting, Immediate Action, Traditional

If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no questionâ€”you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Heart, Kids, Finding Yourself, Immediate Action

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

- Walter Rauschenbusch

source: Walter Rauschenbusch (2008). “A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Kingdoms, Action, Possibility, Inviting, Immediate Action

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.140, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

topic: Ideas, Nurse, Giving, Immediate Action

The American people overwhelmingly want our troops out of Iraq. They want the federal government to take real and immediate action to combat global warming and to significantly expand support for stem cell research. Democrats almost unanimously support the people's wishes onthese crucial issues. Republicans don't.

- Al Gore

topic: Real, Government, Cells, Immediate Action, Crucial

Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.

- Ed Balls

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Government, Immediate Action

Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Country, Mean, Medicine, Immediate Action, Those In Need

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Love, Dream, Persistence, Immediate Action

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

- Melina Marchetta

source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.81, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Book, Hands, Action, Immediate Action, Science Books

The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.

- Johan Huizinga

topic: Reflection, Men, Expression, Dispersion, Immediate Action

Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: New York, Cities, Weather, Immediate Action, Elected Leaders

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

- Syama Prasad Mukherjee

source: Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

topic: Country, Years, Population, Immediate Action, British Rule

We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

topic: Attitude, Reading, Heart, Immediate Action, Coerce

Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an important role in our lives.

- Henry Stapp

topic: Men, Years, Roots, Immediate Action

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Water, Doe, Pilates, Whip It, Rainstorms

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.