Quotes about Taking Action

It's hard to steer a parked car.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

tonsils or half the appendix risks as much infection or shock as if he did the whole job. And he has not cured the condition, has indeed made it worse. He either operates or he doesn't. Similarly, the effective decision-maker either acts or he doesn't act. He does not take half-action. This is the one thing that is always wrong, and the one sure way not to satisfy the minimum specifications, the minimum boundary conditions.

Some people have to live while others get to sit this living thing out.

Talk is cheap and easy; making dreams real takes hard, humble work. Dreams in the Midwest are acceptable, just keep them to yourself. Maybe tell your family, but don't just talk—do something about it.

If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Putuskan apa yang kau inginkan, dan berusahalah untuk menjadikannya kenyataan. Jangan sampai kau lupa hidup karena terlalu sibuk bermimpi

Seems to me the place to fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

Most men just react to circumstances, but thinkers create the circumstances. If

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

There is a fervent joy in taking action. There is a non-abstract importance in what we are doing. The balance between right and wrong is always in question, and the only way to ensure we tip toward justice is to make sure our weight is firmly planted on the side of right. We are driving down to add our weight to the scale. We are singing because voices add as much weight as bodies do -A

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.

I think that I can act.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

I try not to analyze things too much. I just do them and hope it works out.

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.