Quotes about Taking Action

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

If you face problems, face reality, even when it's hard, even when what you're saying is an ugly truth, sometimes you can wake up faster and do something to make things better.

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

The best way to be, is to do.

If the opportunities are a little limited, then you've got to try to find a way to make something happen the best way you can.

Forget being an actor-director: we, as citizens, have the responsibility to make the country a better place. And that doesn't mean advertising other people's agendas; it means looking at what is wrong and making it right.

Do something to make your community a better place to live.

There's a lot of negative things going on. I just try to do my job to make the world a better place.

We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.

You have people that make suggestions you got people that do things.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Businesses should encourage all their staff to come up with ideas, not be afraid to make suggestions, and then to act on those suggestions. There is nothing worse than going to a job every day were you feel like you are not making a difference to either the place you work or the world you live in.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.