Quotes about Taking Action

Honestly sitting around feeling sorry for yourself won't change anything. If you want your life to change you have to do something about it.

I have always heard people say that time changes things, but in reality I have found, you have to change them yourself, and in most cases, the sooner the better!

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you don't have the confidence to do what you want, you will surely have the fear to do what you don't want to do.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Becoming a better person isn't just about talking about things that can make you a better person, it's actually about stepping up and making those changes.

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

It's tough not to keep thinking of the past, but you have to look ahead. Because the stuff in front of you is where you can make a difference and help the most.

When he had died, the duchess had prayed nightly to God to send her down a personality, for she had become unused to thinking any individual thought or taking any individual action.

Many people never see God part the Jordan River in their lives because their feet are firmly planted on dry ground. We're waiting for God to make a move while God is waiting for us to make a move. We say to God, "Why don't you part this river?" And God says to us, "Why don't you get your feet wet?" But if you make a move, you'll see God move. And He can move heaven and earth.

Maybe we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances. Maybe we need to stop talking to God about our problem and start talking to our problem about God.

But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.

Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf." Don't play defense with your life. Play offense with your kids, your wife, your life. Don't look for the path of least resistance. The hard way is the best way! And quit living as if the will of God is an insurance plan. Dare to dream great things for God.

you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting the rest of your life. You'll never find perfect conditions, and you'll never be ready. My mantra? If you get a green light from God—go, set, ready!

God's love is proactive. He doesn't wait for us to get our act together. God always makes the first move. And we're called to follow suit.

At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had. It's the what if dreams that we never act upon that turn into if only regrets.

When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Fear can paralyze you, but you must start moving, do something, anything, even if it's wrong. Start moving, then the brain will take over.

find a balance between building a new world and helping to save the existing one.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.