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I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.
Sep 10, 2025
Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.
You are what you do, not what you say.
Making mistakes is a way of taking action.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.
Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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.
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.
To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.
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.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” My answer is “Because that's what love does.” To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Any action is better than no action at all.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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.
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.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
When 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. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.