Quotes about Taking Action

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

Sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa. Bertindak memang ada bahayanya, tetapi bila kita duduk saja menunggu rezeki nomplok, yang akan datang adalah kegagalan. Kesampingkan saja keragu-raguan anda dan maju terus.!

I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.

Mis sueños carecen de valor alguno, mis planes son como el polvo, mis metas son imposibles. Todo ello carece de valor a menos que sea seguido de la acción.

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle that produced me end with my brith? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

The thoughts that linger are the "If only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Nothing happens until you decide.

The world grants all opportunities to him who can use them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

He's such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

unaffirmed people I have met often have an utter sense of helplessness because they believe there is nothing they themselves can do

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

the only thing worse than losing is not playing. I

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

Talk to your neighbors. Make them promise to vote. Make them promise to take the country back from the torturers and thugs. The people who laughed at my friends as they lay fresh in their graves at the bottom of the harbor. Make them promise to talk to their neighbors. Most of us choose none of the above. It's not working. You have to choose — choose freedom.