Quotes about Taking Action

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Life is about making right things and going on.

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.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Wanting can be done sitting on the couch with a bong in your hand and a travel magazine in your lap.     Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night. You

Time comes to those who make it, not those who try to find it.

you don't have wait until you hit rock bottom to start crawling out of your hole. All you have to do is make the decision. And you can make it right now.

Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

Once you start taking action you'll be able to discover more things you like, more things you don't like, and a clearer picture of what you desire to do will begin to form. Taking action leads to answers, mulling ideas around in your head forever leads to indecision and grouchiness.

Most answers reveal themselves through doing, not thinking.

Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.

and ask, you get an answer. Eventually.

One good idea that comes in out of nowhere can change your entire life, but it ain't gonna do nothing if you don't act on it, and your subconscious is so ninja it can stop you without you even realizing what's happening.

But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying... that kills you.

But all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Fa quod faciendum est.