Quotes about Taking Action

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Hope lies in what action we take.

Life is not about reasons, explanations, interpretations, or solutions. It's all about actions and reactions.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

With everything there is what to do.

Don't stand back with your arms folded