Do Something About It Quotes

#1. To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

Jon Jones

#2. Rose to Rachel:
You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Kim Harrison

#3. But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

Dean Koontz

#5. If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.

Heidi Julavits

#6. You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.

Chloe Thurlow

#7. Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

James Edward Smith

#9. Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing "poor me" just ain't sexy.

Miya Yamanouchi

#10. But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst

#11. I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

Amy Winehouse

#12. If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.

Frederick Lenz

#13. A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Mark Twain

#14. Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Laura Schlessinger

#15. Slavery still exists. And now that I know it does, I have no choice but to do something about it. Further, now that you know it does, you have no choice but to do something about it.

David Platt

#16. Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

Joan Claybrook

#17. I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

Veronica Roth

#18. My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

Katharine Hayhoe

#19. Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, "It's no big deal." Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful or scary. What faith does do is take our problem to the One who really cares and can do something about it.

Matthew C. Mitchell

#20. I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

John Lennon

#21. As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it.
We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn't. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!

Stormie O'martian

#22. Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don't do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

Vivienne Westwood

#23. Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Robert Kiyosaki

#24. If are in a situation with too many people in your life and you want to go into higher attention, look in the mirror. You are being blocked. Do something about it. It might be hard.

Frederick Lenz

#25. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.

Jodi Picoult

#27. You're 100% responsible for your life. Stop whining and do something about it.

Mathieu Fortin

#28. Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?'
'Sometimes.'
'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'
But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

Lauren Oliver

#29. My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

Panayiotis Zavos

#30. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

Emma Thompson

#31. The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

Richard Feynman

#32. The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

B.F. Skinner

#33. Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.

Francis Chan

#34. Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

David H. Murdock

#35. The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

Thom Yorke

#36. I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#37. Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

John Kao

#38. Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Cornel West

#39. A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.

Anita Roddick

#40. Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Antonio Damasio

#41. Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

Ray Comfort

#42. It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.

Jessie J.

#43. Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

Tucker Carlson

#44. We have been there for 15 years in the Middle East, and much more than that probably. And we have spent probably $4 trillion, maybe more than that. And it's time to do something about it. And it's time to also knock ISIS out. You got to knock ISIS out.

Donald Trump

#45. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.

Craig Newmark

#46. I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Wangari Maathai

#47. If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

L. Ron Hubbard

#48. As we said, consciousness is everything. Even now, acknowledging inequality begs one to do something about it--and that is a daunting, albeit righteous, responsibility.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#49. Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Richard Branson

#50. When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Frank Chodorov

#51. The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

Michael Badnarik

#52. We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

Steven Soderbergh

#53. Well I think not knowing is a good thing,
Knowing that I don't know, even better,
But only when I'm willing to do something about it...

Me

#54. We're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Jay Inslee

#55. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#56. We all have the power to change the world ... It's just the person who is willing to do something about it who will.

Tanner Di Bella

#57. Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

Marlo Thomas

#58. You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Edgar Mitchell

#59. Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

Radha Mitchell

#60. Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

Wendy Kopp

#61. If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Philip Larkin

#62. The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.

Barbara Graham

#63. I don't miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back ... in dreams. That's when they're honest.

Donna Lynn Hope

#64. I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

Bill Scott

#65. I've wished for things and never really had the chance ... It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then ... go.

Deb Caletti

#66. I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.

Oliver Kahn

#67. If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#68. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,

Norman Fischer

#69. You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.

Kindle Korner

#70. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

Daniel Pinkwater

#71. I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

#72. Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it.

Yuval Noah Harari

#73. Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Mia Hamm

#74. As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#75. The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Penelope Wilton

#76. We lose and lose, but we're still here. Shaking in place, afraid of doing something. I'm tired of settling for this because I don't know if something better exists. It has to. What point is there otherwise? I can do something about it now. And I will.

Veronica Rossi

#77. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

Van Jones

#78. I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Malorie Blackman

#79. She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.

Mary Anne Kelly

#80. A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

John C. Maxwell

#81. If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it." Pulling

Carol S. Dweck

#82. Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

Christine Caine

#83. I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it.I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

Joe Manganiello

#84. For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.

Alan Weisman

#85. Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

Adam Christopher

#86. The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

Brad Alan Lewis

#87. If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#88. Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

Richard Branson

#89. Well, she was through. If he wanted her, he'd have to do something about it.

Mary J. Williams

#90. Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it?

C. Nzingha Smith

#91. It was the end of something - if not his innocence, at least of his faith that things would always happen gradually enough to afford time to do something about it in.

Thomas Pynchon

#92. I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill
someone, I can do something about it.

Neil Strauss

#93. If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Marco Rubio

#94. And things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Henry Cloud

#95. The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

Michael Owen

#96. Everything you need to know is right there inside, waiting for you to tap in and discover it, and then hopefully do something about it.

Tara Stiles

#97. People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.

Ann Weil

#98. Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question.

Abdu'l- Baha

#99. I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it.

Tom Burnett

#100. When healthy people fall in love, they buy a bunch of flowers or an engagement ring and go and Do Something About It. When poets fall in love, they make a list of their loved one's body parts and attach similes to them.

Mark Forsyth