Quotes about Taking Action

When we have the habit of setting as a goal only activity that we can accomplish and that is genuinely productive, we've taken the first step to getting some real work done. Rather than succeeding or not succeeding almost by accident in the service of some goal that's really beyond our control, we've taken the first step to taking responsibility for our actions and to end what is, really, self-deception (and probably companywide deception).

Agile organizations must adhere to the same values as agile teams: • Delivering value over meeting constraints • Leading the team over managing tasks • Adapting to change over conforming to plans Executives and managers need to lead their organizations in living these values and taking actions based on them—and one of the critical areas on which they need to take action is measuring performance in ways that encourage their organizations to embrace agility.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen ... those who watch things happen ... and those who wonder what happened.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

I wouldn't make any

Worry never climbed a hill Worry never paid a bill Worry never dried a tear Worry never calmed a fear Worry never darned a heel Worry never cooked a meal Worry never led a horse to water Worry never done a thing you'd think it oughta.

Action is the antidote to despair.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

I want you, and I'm not the kind of guy to sit back and wait for good things to come to me.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

But some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

I wasn't frightened. I was just afraid." Her aunt smiled. "Is there a difference?" "Oh yes," Eleanor said. "When you're frightened you run away. When you're afraid you keep on doing what you're supposed to do.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Mahatma Gandhi

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

As long as you're up, get me a Grant's.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.