Quotes About Action

There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

Reading self-help advice from other people, however well-intentioned, is no substitute for getting your own damn work done. The

Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.

if you're going to wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you'll never act because there's an infinite amount of information out there.

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When facing a challenge, employ language that empowers you rather than leaves you in a quandary – rather than ask, "what can I do?", ask yourself "what will I do?

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

The warming of the planet is not waiting for consensus-building.

If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

You see, when you change your attitude, sparks fly in the universe. You're energized. You begin to see new possibilities. You move into action. You achieve extraordinary results. That's why I say when you change your attitude, you change your life!

thought precedes action.

your thoughts don't change, your results won't change.

There's another bonus when you're willing to expand your comfort zone. When you push through fear and take action in some areas of your life, you'll develop confidence in other areas, as well. It's true! As I became more comfortable as a speaker, I also became a better salesman … a better businessman … a better listener … the list goes on and on.

The only way to escape from the prison of fear is action. — Joe Tye

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.