Quotes about Taking Action

Every day, we're learning about what's happened with global warming and what's happening all around the world, and our employees and our customers are really feeling that it's time to step up and make a difference.

Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.

It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess you just do what you can do and voice your concern.

I'm going to have to be content with doing

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Never shrink from making a difference.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Si quieres hacer algo por el Señor… hazlo. Lo que sientas que hace falta hacer, aunque tiembles de miedo, da el primer paso hacia delante. La gracia viene con ese paso y recibirás más gracia con los demás pasos que des. Sentir miedo no es el problema; el problema está en no hacer nada cuando sientes miedo—dijo la Madre Angélica.

If there's a cause you believe in, go out there, get active, and do it.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

I certainly admire people who do things.

We say it every year: we are confident; we think we can win a championship, yadda, yadda, yadda. You have all heard it before. But we have to go out there and do it.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don't do anything because it's like, 'Hey, that's not my problem.' You can't do that when you're a superhero.

Children should speak out and take action to support each other to end bullying.

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I certainly admire people who do things.