Quotes about Taking Action

Someday is not a day of the week.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.

If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.