Quotes about Taking Action

We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.

You either make history or you don't.

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'

I made my body get up. Let's give it a go. people aren't going to come to me. I have to go to where the people are. Come on let's go. Let's share this awakening that I've attained with others. If I don't know the way, I'll ask as I go, and if I ask but there's no path, then I just need to make one and take it.

But every second I'm alive is one more moment I still have a chance to do something.

Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

The thing to do was kill it. Obviously.

when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.

Take care, don't fight, and remember if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

Henry Ford said, "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."3

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, said, "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

Campbell. « Et puis, je me suis dit, c'est ridicule, il faut le faire 

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.

This is a powerful, powerful, powerful way to live. Sure, this mind-set doesn't preclude doing our best to right wrongs, seek justice, and find cures. But in the process of taking action, we must understand that God is in charge.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.