Quotes about Taking Action

Sometimes, you know, good things have to be done—they just have to be done. And most of us—myself included—are too timid to do them. Fortunately, there are brave people who are prepared to take the risk, who do these things, often in such a way that nobody can see them. They say, The world doesn't have to be the way it is; we can change it. That's what they say—and then they do it.

It's better to make a change now than to keep living your mistake simply because you worked hard to get there.

I would rather you burned this book than used the reading of it as an excuse to not make some fresh trouble today

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, things arenít going to get better, theyíre not!

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

Plan on killing yourself? First, take some time to make the sun shine brighter, the earth glow bluer, and solve just one of the many problems that assail us all. See? You do have something to live for.

Alternatively, we could keep on as we are: ignoring or playing down the risks and putting responsibility for action elsewhere. But that would mean taking a monumental gamble with our children's future, and a species as intelligent as ours surely wouldn't do that. Would it?

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

Happy Monday! Don't victimize yourself and let life pass you by as you sit around and complain about problems. Be empowered and create solutions. You can!

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

How could I be out there and not do anything?

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.