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Take Action Quotes

But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.
- Douglas Adams

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.
- Manal Alsharif

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

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

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
- George Allen

We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.
- Steve Maraboli

CHANGE: Don't just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don't just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don't just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli
- Steve Maraboli

Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you've waited, it's never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!
- Steve Maraboli

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
- Steve Maraboli

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
- Steve Maraboli

sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills.
- Fall Out Boy

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
- H Jackson Brown Jr

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
- George W Bush

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
- James Callaghan

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
- Tony Robbins

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
- Jules Renard

Find your true path. It's so easy to become someone we don't want to be, without even realizing it's happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. And if we take action in order to please some authority figure, we'll suddenly wake up down the road and say, This isn't me. I never wanted to be this person.
- Richard Carlson

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
- Wesley Clark

Take action on your inspired dreams
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!!
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
- Andrea Corr

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
- Geena Davis

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
- Abraham Lincoln

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
- Alexander Haig

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.
- Juliana Hatfield

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison

It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.
- David Icke

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
- Valerie Jarrett

When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go.
- Darren L Johnson

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.
- Darren L Johnson

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
- Darren L Johnson

Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.
- Kouhei Kadono

For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.
- John Kremer

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
- Nick Lampson

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
- Jay Leno

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
- Dan Lipinski

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
- E Lockhart

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.
- Gregory Maguire

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.
- Christopher Moore

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
- Ferdinand Mount

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.
- Sandra Day Oconnor

You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.
- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.
- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

How, I asked myself, do you convince men and women who live comfortably to change a system that provides their comforts--even when they know about EHMs and jackals, when they understand that attached to their comforts are terrible price tags? Where do you find words to empower them to stand up to a force like the corporatocracy? How do you inspire them to take actions that will bend the corporations to the will of the people?
- John Perkins

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
- Abbe Pierre

Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action...we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!
- Timothy Pina

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.
- Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.
- Zeena Schreck

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.
- Michael K Simpson

Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
- Hal Stratton

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
- Jack Welch

If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.
- Robyn Wheeler

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.
- Orrin Woodward

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