Quotes about Taking Action

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

I'm 30. I'm about to hit my prime now. I need to act and keep building.

There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.

I do come from a place of privilege. But I have it, so what am I supposed to do now? I'd be the dumbest person on the planet if I didn't do anything about it.

I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

I was so disappointed by the 2012 election that I decided I had to do something. And I thought, 'I have something to offer - I should be able to have a seat at the table.'

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it?

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

When the ball falls to you, you have to put it in.

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

Moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure.