Quotes about Taking Action

Don't get mad, get even

Mucha gente se pregunta: "¿Qué va a hacer nuestro gobierno al respecto?", pero a mí me parece que esta actitud es parte de la crisis porque casi todo mundo espera que el gobierno resuelva sus problemas.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something. Keep going. Don't quit.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the right thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before you'll start your trip.

So when you're in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what Colonel Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.

Las oportunidades van y vienen, y ser capaz de tomar decisiones es una habilidad fundamental.

Action always beats inaction.

And what being an adult means is knowing what you have to do and doing it, even though you may not feel like doing it.

These words of doubt often get so loud that we fail to act.

Tindakan selalu mengalahkan ketiadaan tindakan.

acción siempre vence a la pasividad.

All you have to do is do what needs to be done with the gifts you have been given.

and rush off to do something.

NahoÅŸ ÅŸeyleri ertelemek çok kötü bir al??kanl?k.

Endi?elenmek biraz i?e yar?yor, sanki bir ?eyler yap?yormu? gibi hissediyorsun.

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

Gdy nÄ™kajÄ… ciÄ™ wÄ…tpliwoÅ›ci, we? gÅ'Ä™boki oddech i rób swoje. Od lat kierowaÅ'am siÄ™ tÄ… zasadÄ…. SÅ'yszaÅ'am gorsze, naprawdÄ™.

Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

The only people don't suffer those are the ones who never do anything

The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?