Quotes About Action

you must do what you fear most if you want to overcome the fear.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

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You all want to be the hero in the film who runs away in slo-mo from the villain's factory that he's just mined, throwing himself to the ground as it explodes. But the explosion's taking place already—it's always been taking place. You just didn't notice Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Good managers have a bias for action.

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We move in spasms.

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

because organizing "anti" is easier than building "pro.

After all has been said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

There are two reasons why a person does something, one that sounds good and the real one.

What you do with your hands you mess up with your feet.

I suppose if you're scared enough, you're capable of doing anything.

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Victims don't have to take action; they're too busy dwelling on injustice and being bitter. Remember,