Quotes about Taking Action

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.

Procrastination will eat you up if you allow it to. This is when discipline is most needed, to play its part and complete the equation of success or desired vision.

Since a wish is like a dream, I believe your wish is granted. But it will remain as a dream without taking action to achieve your goals.

You cannot keep blaming the rich people for all of your miseries if you are not willing to act in the first place.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challanges, 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. —Mark Victor Hansen

On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

I do not dwell on could-bes. I pray for the best and do my part to create a happy life.

And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done?

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

I can't give up. Something...there must be something I can do. I want to believe that. I have to believe that.

You've got to recognise the cause and remove it, but you don't have to understand it.

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, "I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That's all I need to do now.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

More than any other single factor, you are where you are today because of the choices you have made. To achieve things you have never achieved before, you must take action today that you've never taken before.

When you take responsibility for your actions, accept that life isn't fair, get rid of excuses, become a doer, and develop an abundance mentality, you will break down many of the barriers keeping you from true success. You will be well on the way to maximizing the potential that God has given you.

Doers, on the other hand, act their way into feeling. After determining what needs to be done based on their goals, doers take action. They just do it. If they don't feel like taking action, they consider that emotion a distraction and take action in spite of it. They refuse to let their craving for short-term comfort divert them from their long-term goal and the blessings that go along with it.

That's other guys. I'm more of the beaten NCO who sighs and looks off toward wherever as you tell him the next problem he's got to jump all over before everything catches fire and we explode in every direction.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.