Quotes about Taking Action

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

an ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.

If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. "That's what other companies do.

Deje las cosas para más adelante.

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

What Mogo did was to take ultimate action to improve his quality of life. This is at the root of murder. We kill people to make our own lives better. We kill them because they are obstacles to our desires, because they make us unhappy, because they burden us, or because they keep calling us fucking wizards. Murder increases happiness.

Don't pole-vault over mouse truds - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

Não é a injustiça que conta, é o que você faz a respeito dela.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.

Opinions are of very little value by themselves. It is only what we do with them that makes any difference in the world.

Attempting to do something, even if it doesn't succeed, is inspiring because we don't tend to regret what we do, we regret what we didn't do. Even following a futile attempt, we're inspired because we know that we gave it a shot. It's wondering whether we should or shouldn't try something that leaves us feeling stressed and incomplete.

avoid procrastination and just begin from where we are, right here, right now.

Be a doer, not a wisher, hoper or critic.

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.