Quotes about Taking Action

sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.

strides, Shelly grabbed the ball

When Jann Wenner, the hopelessly liberal founder of Rolling Stone magazine, was interviewing Bob Dylan in 2006, he was told that politicians cannot be counted on to solve problems. To him, the statement seemed absurd. "Who is going to solve them?" Wenner asked, incredulous. Dylan replied, "Our own selves2." He's exactly right. If we want things

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

Ma una decisione bisognava pur prenderla, e ciò gli dispiaceva. Egli avrebbe preferito continuare l'attesa, rimanere assolutamente immobile, quasi a provocare il destino affinché si scatenasse davvero.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. That task becomes a nightmare.

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

Leadership is action, not position.

If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother