Quotes about Taking Action

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

Don't wait to "feel" like doing a thing to do it. Live by decision, not emotion.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." —Saint Francis of Assisi

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear. Bold people do what they know they should do—not what they feel like doing.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want." Thomas J. Vilord

Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get

The sooner you make a change, the sooner you will be living the life you truly want to live.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, and stop expecting others to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves... or trusting God to do for us.

Muchas personas tienen talento pero no se molestan en formar buenos hábitos. No se disciplinan a sí mismas para hacer lo que saben que deberían hacer, sino en cambio esperan a ser movidas por alguna fuerza exterior.

Mel, if you're going to go up to the bell, ring it.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

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.

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining.

What matters is action. Not to think about writing, but to write. Not to think about sailing, but to sail. Not to think about loving, but to love.

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.

Even though I know I'm not going to win, competing is more fun than sitting at home complaining.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

Das, dachte er, ist es. Leben müssen, obgleich alles vorbei ist. Disponieren, organisieren: jeden Tag, jede Stunde und Minute. Als hätte es noch Sinn

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.