Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

Let me be the one To do what is done.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Make choices-not excuses.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

We can act instead of being acted upon.