Quotes about Taking Action

What are you going to do? What do you want to do?" she prompted. "I'm going to go try to help Niall. He's not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what's wrong," he told her. "Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

The only way to do it is to do it.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." ? Denis Waitley

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

Don't just stand there with a stupid look on your face, do something useful with a stupid look on your face.

action makes all the difference. (Chapter 1)

Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure

Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.

Si realmente queremos vivir, sería mejor que empezáramos de una vez a intentarlo; Si no queremos, no importa, pero sería mejor que empezáramos a morir.

The meat is on the street."11

Semesta bergerak lebih cepat daripada tindakan anda. Jadi, ketika berkaitan dengan menjalani kehidupan impian anda, cukup mulai dengan melakukan apa yang anda bisa lakukan.

If you have absolutely no idea of which direction to move in, move in any direction.

Actually, it's pretty simple. You have one real choice: To do your best, with what you have, from where you are. Everything else is just stalling.

We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

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