Quotes about Taking Action

To not try at all is a form of murder itself.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.

We all get out of shape once in a while. The trouble starts when we refuse to do anything about it.

Courage isn't a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Close your cowardly lips over that void in your head where your brains went missing and keep them there. Then put your lazy, shapeless ass back into your chair and do it swiftly. Or face me in the juris macto.

You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.

It. Wasn't. Right. No, it wasn't. But the world wasn't a fair place, was it? And I had more reason to know that than most people twice my age. The world wasn't nice, and it wasn't fair. People who didn't deserve it suffered and died every single day. So what? So somebody ought to do something about it.

Time to start doing," I whispered.

And I . . . I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

I had to get myself moving before the problem started looking too big. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

it, I just did it. I don't know if I

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

Arise and do thy sacred work.

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.

The key to being awesome is to do awesome things at awesome times.

Being sad and sulking will get you no where, go out and do something about that sh.. forget that her because she doesn't care, so why should you.

Okay this being sad bullsh.. is getting old and annoying. Time to start doing what I said I was gonna do.

Don't be upset by the results you didn't get with the work you didn't do.