Quotes about Taking Action

inner factors such as fear, guilt, or inertia prevented you from taking action, they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence.

change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

meant action was expected. But it wasn't too late. All I had to do was tell him

Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.

I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens.

It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

Being part of any solution means taking action. And taking action involves more than just dreaming, no matter how vivid, how real, one's dreams appear. Whether dreaming or awake, when we are prisoners of our thoughts, we can't always see very clearly through the bars of our metaphorical prison cell, let alone take action.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

Human induced climate change is real, and the evidence is right in front of us. It threatens our shores. It promises to bring intense heat waves and powerful storms. It has the power to disrupt our economy, endanger our food supply, and imperil global stability. We must take action to stop it.

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.

We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.