Quotes about Taking Action

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

But there's no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.

We do what we do, Lilith.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

What do you expect us to do?" "Set the wheels in motion. Punish the culprits. Change the law." "That's too much. You can't want all those things," he said. "Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want," I shouted furiously

But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

You can either choose to wait around and hope life gives you what you want—or you can choose to jump up and put in the work to make your dream come true.