Quotes about Taking Action

They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.

the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

When the universe calls, don't place it on hold.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

This was my problem, and I had to solve it or live with the negative consequences. I chose to solve it.

I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers.

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don't want to make mistakes.

People who wait for the one great opportunity often keep waiting.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Consider this skeletal anatomy of an organization: • The wishbones wish somebody else would do the work. • The jawbones talk a lot but do little else. • The knucklebones knock what everyone else does. • The backbones actually do the work! Encourage

IT'S THE JOB THAT IS NEVER STARTED THAT TAKES THE LONGEST TO FINISH.

Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them.

Be the change you want to see in the world." —MAHATMA GANDHI