Quotes About Action

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

A door must either be shut or open.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

Not to decide is to decide.

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

When in doubt, do it.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.