Quotes about Taking Action

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

It is no longer a matter," says Churchill, "of the great American democracy taking military action to save us. The time has come for American citizens to take civil action to save themselves.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out right to know, and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

Only by living in reality 100 percent of the time do we have the power to take action, make lasting changes, and become the masters of our lives.

It's said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

La décadence d'une société commence quand l'homme se demande: "Que va-t-il arriver?" au lieu de se demander: "Que puis-je faire?

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

Do what must be done, and then deal with the consequences.

IN WHICH MRS. FIGG TAKES A HAND

You—shoot him, can't you?" Jamie shrugged and, lifting the rifle to

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.

I didn't get drafted to sit out. I got drafted to play.

I hate politicking. I'm not the type of dude to like get around 13 guys and talk about who's next. I can't stand that. I like to take action.