Quotes about Taking Action

When there is nothing to do you do what little there is. What little is left.

Are we all ready to make a change, like we've been saying we are? Or are we expecting life to do it for us?

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

He dressed and unbolted

Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -

You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.

There are things that must be done today, things that you and you alone were created to accomplish. Some of us are wasting our time burning daylight when what we need to be doing is seizing the power of every moment.

I point out to Ben that, contrary to popular belief, taking action is not always the best course.

Churchill sensed he was speaking into a void, and years later he wrote of that debate, 'I felt a sensation of despair. To be so entirely convinced and vindicated in a matter of life and death to one's country, and not to be able to make Parliament and the nation heed the warning, or bow to the proof by taking action, was an experience most painful.

Because if everyone in this world waits for another Hero to save them, I don't know if this world will survive. And if I'm content to wait and let another person risk their life for me, I don't know if I'm worth saving.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

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Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it — I act. And I always get what I want. - Yennefer

Brooding achieves nothing, save distress, which clearly does you no good.

Stories like that are made up by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.

Una maga agisce sempre. Se male o bene si scopre poi. Ma bisogna agire, prendere la vita per i capelli. Credimi, piccola, ci si rammarica solo dell'inattività, dell'irresolutezza, dell'esitazione. Delle azioni compiute e delle decisioni prese, sebbene a volte siano causa di tristezza e dolore, non ci si rammarica.

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward.