Quotes About Taking Action

#1. In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

Meg Greenfield

#2. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.

Dan Brown

#3. Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

Joseph M. Juran

#4. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#5. Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

Andy Gilbert

#6. Successful entrepreneurs don't have better ideas; instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.

Farshad Asl

#7. It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.

Al Batt

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

Honore De Balzac

#9. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Bradley Whitford

#10. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.

Jack Canfield

#11. Service is taking action to create value for someone else.

Ron Kaufman

#12. The only regret we should have is allowing regret to hold us back from taking action now.

Charles F. Glassman

#13. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?

Vatsala Shukla

#14. Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action.

Brian A. Brown

#15. Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Lydia Lunch

#16. At least you're taking action. Every big thing starts small.

Ann Aguirre

#17. ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee

Mammy Oaklee

#18. Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward ...

Martha Beck

#19. Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

John Jay Chapman

#20. I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Jody Williams

#21. On Dreams
Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.

Vincent Lowry

#22. The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.

Rene Daumal

#23. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Debasish Mridha

#24. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

Diahann Carroll

#25. Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

Marcelo Claure

#26. And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

David Blunkett

#27. Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Joel Brown

#28. While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

Dave Reichert

#29. The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management
time and distraction.

Bill Vaughan

#30. At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#31. To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Richard Kiel

#32. There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Paulo Coelho

#33. Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#34. Deep inside us all, there is a perpetual conflict between our urge to succeed and the fear of taking action. The trouble is, taking action almost always precedes success.

Majid Kazmi

#35. This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#36. Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

Taslima Nasrin

#37. Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

Doreen Virtue

#38. Courage is all about taking action. Courage requires discipline, vitality, and guts to face those tasks in your profession that make you feel uncomfortable.

David Sandler

#39. If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

Kim Kardashian

#40. I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me ...

Madonna Ciccone

#41. No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

Clifton Anderson

#42. Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Chris Prentiss

#43. Being busy is different from taking action.

Keshni Kashyap

#44. "Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Eckhart Tolle

#45. Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.

Debasish Mridha

#46. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#47. Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.

Steve Harvey

#48. We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Charlotte Bunch

#49. Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

Lauren Mackler

#50. Taking action is being alive. It's taking the risk to go out and express your dream. This is different than imposing your dream on someone else, because everyone has the right to express his or her dream.

Miguel Ruiz

#51. Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present.

Rob Martin

#52. Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Franz Grillparzer

#53. They think that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully considered before reaching a conclusion. Only then do these pinstriped bureaucrats consider taking action.

Donald J. Trump

#54. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.

Roy Bennett

#55. Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

Paulo Coelho

#56. Taking action and doing, is one key to success. Keeping logistics in mind - enormous things are possible.

Gisela Hausmann

#57. I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high ... even if it quivers.

Rachel Harris

#58. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.

Elina Juusola

#59. We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

Veronica Roth

#60. There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it!

Rachael Bermingham

#61. Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

Nabil Basma

#62. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

Clayton M Christensen

#63. Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man's playbook...

Assegid Habtewold

#64. Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Confucius

#65. The entire customer or user experience-from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support-is going digital.

Colleen Jones

#66. The EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Challenge is an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to make the first step in taking action for clean water and healthy waterways worldwide.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#67. Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Seth Godin

#68. Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

Caroline Myss

#69. Don't just jump into action just because people are taking action. Know and understand the next real action and reaction that will follow the action before you take any action.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#70. Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Steve Fisher

#71. Faith is taking action when common sense says no. After

Christopher Greenwood

#72. You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go.

April Bryan

#73. The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

Ray Kroc

#74. There's motion, like taking action or moving forward. There's evolution-that's growing or changing with life. And then there's illumination, which is understanding or knowing.

Jessi Kirby

#75. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Eckhart Tolle

#76. Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!

Les Brown

#77. A man lives by thinking about action. A warrior lives by taking action.

Jose N. Harris

#78. 'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

Travis Bradberry

#79. We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

John O. Brennan

#80. Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Ann Voskamp

#81. Lift the demands of time pressure, though, and some of the true power of human cognition becomes evident. Given the opportunity, we often behave in a decidedly off-line way: stepping back, observing, assessing, planning, and only then taking action. It

Anonymous

#82. The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Will.i.am

#83. 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.

Louis Finkelstein

#84. When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.

Maureen Brady

#85. Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

Tony Robbins

#86. Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

Camron Wright

#87. Perhaps the most important reason of all for taking action now is that time is finite. No matter how proficient you are, you can only accomplish so much in a lifetime. Every second that's wasted reduces the totality of what you can accomplish by one second

Robert Ringer

#88. Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Chris Christie

#89. Form a clear mental vision of your ideal life before you start taking action to achieve it.

Amey Hegde

#90. The process of Motivation is as follows: Spark(Passionate Idea), Willpower, Taking Action, Final Creation, Success and finally, reinforced Passion.

Sean Kross

#91. Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Max Carver

#92. Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Pericles

#93. To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Steven Brust

#94. What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

Tony Robbins

#95. Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

Richard DuFour

#96. Never forget this: It's easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently.

Stephen Guise

#97. As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.

Eckhart Tolle

#98. It's really just taking action - whether that's approaching someone you're intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you need to learn.

Ryan Holiday

#99. Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent.

Steve Maraboli

#100. Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action

J. Willard Marriott