Quotes about Taking Action

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that "if you temporize, you are lost.

But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

Era tempo, diceva l'oroscopo, di agire con positiva fermezza, prendere ardue decisioni, vedere cosa occorresse fare e farlo. Era tutto assai difficile per lui, ma, sapeva il Capo, nessuno aveva mai detto che fare cose difficili non fosse difficile.

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

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

Only a fool would sit on the sidelines hoping for something worthy of mention to happen to them

Si aad u hesho wax aaney qayrkaa heli doonin mustaqbalka, samee wax ka duwan waxa ay sameeyaan.

Better to light a candle than complain about the darkness.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

None of us—not you, not me—is here to stick a toe in the water. We're here to make waves.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

I think we all need to take personal responsibility, and take action when we see anything wrong around us. I do that, when I see any man harassing any woman. I go and stop that, even if they are actors.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

In Donald Trump, you have a candidate who knows the difference between wanting something done and making it happen.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.