Quotes about Taking Action

If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Good. That is what we do here.

I would rather live my life than not live it.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

We don't really know how it will all turn out, do we? And we can't just think that we can do nothing and everything will work out for the best.

It is important to take action and to realize that we Can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. This is how we spread the Light. And this, of course, makes us all even more hopeful.

It is important to take action and realize that we can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action, and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. That is how we spread the light. And this, of course, makes us all ever more hopeful.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.

I was getting nowhere fast on all this stuff, but as Yoda says, "Do or do not. There is no try." So, I was all about the do today.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'