Quotes about Taking Action

Because the blinking line doesn't just taunt you with all the possibilities that are before you, the potential, all that you sense could exist but isn't yet because you haven't created it. The blinking line also asks a question: Who are you to do this? And that question can be paralyzing. It can prevent us from overcoming inertia. It can cause crippling doubt and stress. It can keep us stuck on the couch while life passes us by.

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

But you don't have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan—make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing—the only thing!—that can strike terror in the heart of a good platoon sergeant is to find that he's working for a boss who can't make up his mind.

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands . . . and he, Jubal Harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irritated him.

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?

if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault.

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

Read the text right and emancipate the world. – Robert Browning

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it.

The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still." —CHLOE TODD, A.K.A. BABY T-REX, OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, UNWITTING IMMORTAL

The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still.

I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress, we have to drive it. —Susan Rice

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Art?k yaÅŸamak gerektiÄŸinin bask?s?n? duydum içimde. YaÅŸanacak hayat?m? yaÅŸamal?yd?m. BaÅŸtan aÅŸa?? maskaral?ktan bir ÅŸey olmasa da, gerçek hayat?mla hiç ilgisi bulunmasa da, art?k baÅŸlaman?n ve çaresiz ayaklar?m? harekete geçirmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti benim için.

Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it.

Instead of praying for miracles, we need to ask what we can do to help.

Those who wait until all the lights are on green before starting will never leave home.